Improve automatic bracketing in maps to be usable

[paarriagadap]

Description

Improve the automatically generated map brackets to have a meaningful, usable option that don't involve manual processing every time. This is especially critical in large explorers (indicator-based or csv-based) or when we need to generate multiple charts for a Grapher ID-based explorer.

Expected behaviour

The system should not generate very specific brackets (see pictures below), but rounded, sensible options in the range of the full data (all the years) and following our map bracket guidelines.

Screenshots

For the indicator share in extreme poverty, this is the default behaviour: Equal-interval strategy

Quantiles strategy

Ckmeans strategy

We would like in this example that the brackets suggested would be something closer to

Additional context

• Issue reported by Max in 2022 and by Pablo R on May 2024.
• Fiona referenced how ArcGIS creates map brackets.
• Ed mentions the squash package in R, which creates bins.

[marcelgerber]

Additional context: This document outlines the binning strategies that ArcGIS provides (thanks Fiona!).

[pabloarosado]

Thanks for writing this up, @paarriagadap. Creating map brackets is a big pain!

I've created a separate issue with a proposed implementation of how to improve the current tool in the chart admin. The current issue can be about deciding the optimal strategy (which I think can be harder to figure out).

But for explorers, there's no grapher admin tool, and I think we are from having one, so I've created this separate ETL issue to have something useful with streamlit.

[danyx23]

We talked about this today in data viz triage and yesterday in the data meeting and there is a good chance that @pabloarosado has time in his upcoming cycle to tackle this problem on the python side and come up with a good algorithm that comes close to our guilelines. Once this is done it should not be too much work to reimplement this in grapher.