owid / owid-grapher

A platform for creating interactive data visualizations
https://ourworldindata.org
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Relative mode for maps of rates #3984

Open larsyencken opened 6 days ago

larsyencken commented 6 days ago

Proposal

When viewing a map chart of data, we may care how data compares to the global average.

When maps are already showing something that is a rate, and have a value for "World", we could enable a relative mode toggle for the map which, when enabled, transforms the data to percentages above/below the global average.

marcelgerber commented 5 days ago

Similarly, for absolute numbers, a "Share of global" view may also be helpful.