Data: World Bank Data through WDI package

Tools: R, ggplot

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Embedding the names in the graph makes it very hard to take in the data.

I'm unsure where you are from, so this is a US perspective.

First I like the data

If you are going to use North America, I would choose to use Central America and not latin America.

Mexico would be part of both which is slightly confusing

Maybe numbers and legend would work

Fair point. Regions can be tricky. I used the region variable from the countrycodes::codelist.

I’ll probably know it as soon as you say it, but who is SYC?

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Seychelles, it's a small island nation off the cost of the middle Eastern part of Africa.

You'd have been better off doing this as a colored map. This is pretty damned unreadable

It's hard to plot two dimensions in a map. Maybe two separate maps, one for etoh and one for smoking?

I wonder if the fact that it’s so tourism oriented brings up the alcohol figure, as they probably serve a large number of drinks to tourists. So the tourist consumption goes into the numerator but the tourist population doesn’t go into the denominator.

Thank you! I used to collect stamps; that’s the last time I recall hearing of the Seychelles

Seeing how the islands population in 2021 was 99,258 and the amount of visitors they received in 2019 was 428 thousand I would say probably... Most definitely.

Edit: scratch that alcohol is just a very large part of their culture and most people home brew and on top of that it's very cheep to buy.

You assign a color based on two end points, e.g. red/blue with an intensity based on what your coordinates are

It’s hard to know for sure since there’s no citation for the data source. If it’s strictly based on self-reporting then the latter makes sense.

But that's just one dimension, red to blue. That works if you're measuring one thing. But how do you use this for two separate measures (i.e., two dimensions)?

Red on one dimension, blue on the other. You go white to pure red, and white to pure blue depending on where you are in the data's bounding box. So basically each country on a map gets a color based on

x * Red + y * blue

Something like that

So we get a nice lavender, but not in France.

I cant help but feel our colorblind friends might not approve of this

Well the OP's graph isn't much better in that regard

Scatterplots are usually used to show the relationship between two variables. In this case, it doesn’t look like there’s much of a relationship which tells you another kind of graph might be better.

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