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Flashwastaken t1_j4pga9o wrote

I’m confused as to why you wouldn’t make this geographical. What is the benefit in displaying the information this way?

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boersc t1_j4plkrj wrote

It would show how ridiculously close the four biggest airports are and the many lines between them. However, I'm confused by de gaulle on top, with schiphol right as well. I'd at least have swapped them around...

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JackdiQuadri97 t1_j4plom6 wrote

Better visualization of centrality, both high and low, and communities

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FartSwapper t1_j4ptows wrote

Interesting, but it makes my brain cramp that they're not geographically distributed, at least somewhat.

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LuckSweaty t1_j4pamr2 wrote

From when is this data? Tegel Airport doesn’t exist anymore.

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Zarasophos OP t1_j4pc3gv wrote

It's sadly not very up to date, the flight data is up to 2014 and the airport data up to 2019

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pk10534 t1_j4qiqjl wrote

This map seems really misleading, or a bad way to display airport data, as it would suggest Heathrow and Frankfurt and De Gaulle are the airport heavyweights when they’re relatively small compared to many US and Chinese airports.

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SjalabaisWoWS t1_j4pxx3t wrote

The non-map map is confusing to read, but there's nonetheless some very interesting data here. I wasn't aware that Berlin Schönefeld had less traffic than Hamburg, and Oslo had more traffic than both. How odd. And little Keflavik is really the odd one out.

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vt2022cam t1_j4su1yf wrote

Isn’t Atlanta the busiest airport?

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Concerningparrots t1_j4qvyen wrote

Isn’t Atlanta Georgia the busiest airport in the world?

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Zarasophos OP t1_j4p5say wrote

Hello everyone! I recently created this visualisation for a uni project and thought this subreddit might find it interesting. It represents connections between the world’s 200 largest airports. The circles are airports, with their colour based on the total number of seats in flights connected to them (also to airports not represented in the visualisation) and their size based on how the number of connections with them. The lines are connections between airports, with their weight based on the number of individual routes connecting two airports. The data comes from the World Bank and openflights.org and is sadly not very up to date: Flight data is up to 2014 and airport data up to 2019. The visualisation was created using Gephi and the Force Atlas algorithm.

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Far-Two8659 t1_j4q0qhd wrote

If this has the 200 largest airports, where is ATL (Hartsfield-Jackson)? That's the world's largest and I don't see it here.

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Stretch63301 t1_j4rj1fa wrote

Really struggling with this concept as well. Maybe there needs to be a volume map, too?

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JackdiQuadri97 t1_j4pm1f9 wrote

If the project isn't over yet I think also having size (or color) equal to ranking: betweenness would be really helpful, as it measures how much that airport is needed to connect different locations in the world through connecting flights

P.s. Also you just need to push a button to calculate it, so pretty ez

P.p.s. Also modularity as color and then check how good of a representation of continents the components are

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Zarasophos OP t1_j4q79r5 wrote

Here you go for centrality and here you go for modularity! I had to rerun the algorithm because my Gephi project didn't save correctly for some reason, that's why the layout is different. Thank you for the ideas!

Edit: Just realised that Gephi coloured Heathrow and Charles de Gaulle in with America... I wonder what the British and the French would think about that.

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JackdiQuadri97 t1_j4qdi2a wrote

I feel you for Gephi not saving correctly ahahah, have used it just for a project but every time I reopened a project I used filters on I had errors and had to restart all over again 🙃

Pretty interesting for those being put in the mainly American component

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SecondAccount404 t1_j4puwus wrote

It would also be fairly interesting to group airports together by city where relevant. Heathrow is just one of London's 6 different airports for example, so I'd be curious to see a similar figure with places like London depicted as a unified node.

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TemujinBakemon t1_j4pdfzm wrote

Very Nice but Im missing Singapore?

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SpoonNZ t1_j4pecd0 wrote

Changi, toward the left.

There’s a few that don’t have the location in the airport name which can be confusing. E.g. Kingsford Smith (Sydney, Australia)

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gormster t1_j4pjl7d wrote

Right? It took me a second wondering why Brisbane and Melbourne were there but Sydney nowhere to be found… this is some r/DataIsUgly right here

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tecrobi t1_j4peajz wrote

Changi, near the label for Bangkok

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tmaddog19 t1_j4r8vhx wrote

Perhaps colorize the airport names by continent. That might illustrate some geography without moving the cities.

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TatonkaJack t1_j4rea43 wrote

Go bigger. do it with ALL international airports

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Sk3eBum t1_j4t0ovn wrote

Ignoring the US apparently? No ORD, JFK, ATL, LAX, etc.

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madrid987 t1_j4zrta9 wrote

Looking at this, it seems that Europe is still the center of the world. North America and East Asia are still very border area compared to Europe.

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Dubbiely t1_j4pyw7f wrote

This graphic is wrong. Biggest airports in the world is Atlanta, USA. Frankfurt ist not even in the top 10.

It is in the wing sub. Better r/dataisugly

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askLubich t1_j4q089c wrote

OP says the sizes of the circles are scaled based on the number of flights between the top 200 airports.

Atlanta is the largest airport by number of passengers, but the majority of that comes from domestic flights, i.e., many connections to smaller airports.

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Far-Two8659 t1_j4q0t97 wrote

It should still be listed here though, just not a big circle. I don't see it anywhere.

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askLubich t1_j4q2xv5 wrote

It's listed as "Hartsfield-Jackson Int" in the top part of the map. Indeed, it's surprisingly small.

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Dubbiely t1_j4q37bj wrote

Chicago is the number 1 airport is the USA for international flights. Where is it?

Graphic is wrong.

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askLubich t1_j4q3hpl wrote

"O'Hare International" between Los Angeles and JFK.

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Student-type t1_j4p9q4w wrote

How many Patriots, Iron Domes, or AEGIS Ashore systems to protect the top 33%?

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