scedast

Thanks for taking the time to help improve things. I agree with some issues you raise but not others.

For the Clinton server, I never stated that work email being wiped was intentional. The fact is though that almost half of her emails were securely wiped with bleachbit, and the FBI recovered 5600 work related emails, of which at most half are duplicates of those turned over. I give the benefit of the doubt and list that half of them are new. See the WSJ source for the FBI stating that they found emails that Clinton wiped.

Homicides by race - you're right about the tooltip not being as clear as can be. I need to be terse so that the tooltip can fit on mobile, but I do mean the percentage to be detailing the size of the histogram slice.

I defend using the percentages instead of whole populations though. Looking at the total population is asking what kills people the most. Looking at a breakdown of homicides is asking who kills the most. It's a case of Simpson's paradox where the subpopulation does not conform to the aggregated whole.

I'm happy you expect good work out of the site - that's what I strive to accomplish.

2017 is the year you learned it's actually a spheroid.

Very interesting - I didn't know that.

The trendline matters. Focusing on a specific year is meaningless, which is what this visualization is trying to show. It's not trying to argue against mercury but against the annual headlines that there is a hottest year.

That's a bold claim. Which ones use false information?

We don't have a fully accurate measure of what the earth's temperature is, so scientists estimate what is it based on available data. Any temperature recording device also has an error margin. Thus the annual temperature is an estimate with a 95% confidence interval.

It is all about the trendline. Sick of how people focus on one point in a continuous scale.

Per capita would hide lurking variables like differences in crime rate among different communities. Comparing to overall homicides surfaces this effect more.