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A platform for creating interactive data visualizations
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Show projected data on maps #2812

Open sophiamersmann opened 11 months ago

sophiamersmann commented 11 months ago

Core problem

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Example chart: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/population-growth-rates

Proposed solution

Maps should combine past and future data, if both are available. Probably needs some design work: What visual cue are using to differentiate between past and future data?

larsyencken commented 9 months ago

It makes me wish for a different internal data model for projected data, like a pair of time series, one of values and one saying if it's a projection or not.

It's not clear what strategy would be good for indicating it. A shift in title? A different tooltip?

@danyx23 Perhaps whether or not a data point is projected would be a good hidden dimension for a dimensional indicator.