I love the fact that the source of the data is a site called Objective Lists, but the data here are derived using a totally arbitrary points scheme.

I appreciate that most people here want to talk about the data rather than the presentation, but this sub is 'data is beautiful' rather than 'data is interesting', so...

Personally I think the colour scale isn't at all helpful. There's no progression of colours, and no easy way to spot patterns. The presentation would be hugely improved by the use of a conventional colour scale, such as dark > midtone > white or red > yellow > green.

Yes, but his has more wetted surface because it's longer and wider, hence more drag.

This is a really super visualisation. Great work.

I have one quick question about the data, which was inspired by the little maps showing the regional differences. I hope you don't mind me asking because I can't find a clear answer by Googling it.

Are the national average figures weighted by population or by area?

I expect it's probably by area. Unfortunately, since England has about 80% of the UK's population in about 50% of the area, this can lead to situations where the national average picture (as in your line charts) is not consistent with what most people actually experience. The sunshine in July would seem to be an example of this, where the line chart suggests "about average" but the map shows that most people would have experienced "well above average".

>Wait, so you're saying things in orbit are just endlessly falling?

That's exactly right.

Fun fact: If you want to go into space, the key problem isn't going high enough, it's going fast enough. If you don't go fast enough, you'll fall down and hit the earth. But if you go fast enough, you'll miss the earth and you'll be in orbit.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

>I question these numbers. 4.76 gal = 18000ml of alcohol.

Others have pointed out that the figures for NH are distorted by residents from MA and elsewhere crossing into NH to buy alcohol.

The nationwide average of 2.35 gallons is more interesting though. That's 8.9 litres per person, and Wikipedia says that's not very much by European standards. Many European countries average over 12 litres per person.

Even 12 litres seems a lot to me. A typical bottle of wine (750ml, 12-13% abv) has ~100ml of alcohol, so that's 120 bottles of wine per year or one every 3 days. Or with your 350ml 5% beer, that's 17.5ml of alcohol per can, so that's nearly 700 cans per year, or 13 cans per week. To my mind these are high as averages. But I guess the distribution has a long, heavy tail. I imagine that if we looked at the median or the mode, the numbers would be more relatable.

It would be more useful, and more interesting, if the points were colour coded according to the date the planes entered service. One would expect that much of the apparent variation around the trend line could be due to some planes being of newer designs than others.