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Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Is it me or the visualization is very hard to follow? E.g. if you highlight the 'Dancers and Choreographers' section, it's not at all clear that more female dancers marry male welders.

Of all the lines starting at 'Dancers and Choreographers' which are initially red, the thickest one is by far the one that is blue at the other end and ends at 'Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Workers'. I think that's the intended way of drawing that conclusion from the graph.

Overall I'm satisfied with the visualization itself, but it would be nice to have more sorting options.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Is it me or the visualization is very hard to follow? E.g. if you highlight the 'Dancers and Choreographers' section, it's not at all clear that more female dancers marry male welders.

You're not wrong, this is incredibly hard to parse.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Interesting, but sort of suffers from a few dominant trends:

- white men without a college degree marry secretaries - white men with a college degree marry teachers

It'd be more interesting to know how occupations shift choices away from other demographic factors.

Re: Chart Shows Who Marries CEOs, Doctors, Chefs and Janitors

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Is it me or the visualization is very hard to follow? E.g. if you highlight the 'Dancers and Choreographers' section, it's not at all clear that more female dancers marry male welders.

You're not wrong, this is incredibly hard to parse.

As far as I can tell most groups seem to marry Elementary school teachers
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