Data is Beautiful

1167 readers

1 users here now

Be respectful

founded 5 months ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Wikipedia graph for generational spans over time (upload.wikimedia.org)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

14 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Not the prettiest graph, but a neat way of putting all this information into one image.

Wiki Commons page: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Generation_timeline.svg#mw-jump-to-license

Wikipedia page on Generations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I hear you but death age is likely a messy statistic. Using life expectancy might help, but that too depends on a number of things. So I can see why they went this way … it lets you apply the ages to what you know.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Good points, it's hard to portray that part of the data either way

I'm really just splitting hairs, the chart is a helpful visualization otherwise. Thanks for sharing!