I love the dataset, but this has to be one of the worst visualizations I've seen: it takes way too long to scroll through the whole list and the differences in the size of the rendered houses is essentially meaningless to the average observer.
Meters? Space per inhabitant? Irrelevant to your next hive where water should only be .5 seconds of beeswagger dance away!
Posted on the internet with a worldwide audience. (Including this HN audience of engineers and scientists).
> where such units are the default.
All the more baffling!
And even in the US most of science and the engineering world now use the metric system. Imperial is largely just a public facing/public consumption unit of measure now.
You change units depending on what the data is about. Thats wild
But what if your data is about the US AND UK? What do you do then ?