danyx23
commented
2 weeks ago This is a nice idea (we especially liked the scaling by popluation) but in practice we are not sure it's worth the effort. The numer of countries seems like a relatively minor benefit. Scaling by population (and doing something like a transposed Marimekko) would be interesting but the legend doesn't have white space around it in the normal case and we probably don't want to rescale the rest of the chart when hovering.
All together we think there are too many open questions and headaches for this to be worth it - sorry!
lucasrodes
Core problem
When looking at a map, it'd be nice if the user could quickly know how many countries that fall in each of the categories (or bracket limits).
Proposed solution
When hovering over the map brackets, we could show the number of countries that fall in that range. Find below two half-baked ideas on how this could look like (WARNING: this is just a quick draft)
Demo 1
Simple solution, show the counts in numbers above the brackets. Highlight the one selected somehow (in this example, by bolding its font).
Demo 2
Along the counts, expand the brackets to represent a distribution (like bins). To do so, we'd have to move the bracket range limit labels to the bottom.