Male/female age combinations on /r/relationships [OC]

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Fragmoplast on November 3rd, 2019 at 13:24 UTC »

One thing: The spectrum LUT is kind of hard to read here. Dark blue against blue is hard to decipher. Maybe shift more towards red in the end to highlight the smaller numbers.

Also: That fascinating outlier of 17 year old boys having 24 old girlfriends.

Edit: so this off-hand comment gained some traction displaying my ignorance of colormaps. Anyways, just a couple of notes:

Overall the plot is overall nice and well done. I just nit-picked a bit, but so I learned a lot about colormaps today. Thanks for the links. I am an imaging guy which is why I wrongfully confused look up table (LUT) with colormap. What I actually wanted to suggest is to adjust the binning width so the boring part of couples being of the same age is kind of lost and the more interesting part of off-average couples gets into focus. However, that's just because I subjectively think that's more interesting. in a line with that I was not confused by the age gap per se, yet the specific 7 year age gap. as a commenter pointed out said point is likely a collection artifact

Edit2: ok no nicks to nit-pick :)

radioshackhead on November 3rd, 2019 at 13:43 UTC »

I saw a graph like this years ago that was something like what age do the opposite sex find the most beautiful. And the woman's was 1-1 tracking with their age. And the men's was like 22 across the board.

My gf at the time called it the saddest data she ever saw.

Edit: found it https://i.imgur.com/Ijgzwsk.png

AeroZep on November 3rd, 2019 at 14:50 UTC »

As a 36 year old, I feel personally attacked being too old for the chart for what might be the first time in my life.