File talk:Male-Female suicide ratios and rates 2015 (crude).svg

 

commitment towards more professional (mathematically proportionate) shades

I'm thinking of using the very same saturation for all colors so that with a Yellow-to-Red range, the RGB primary color Blue is always very low or at 0 (zero), and only the proportion of primary Red and Green would regulate the final shades (by hue and brightness) in a mathematically proportionate way (based on the legends' numeric values). I like it very much the way it is now and so it would still look from yellow to red exactly as it is now, but.. "more professional". SuperSucker (talk) 11:39, 10 November 2018 (UTC) Note: however, rather than a colored map, I had always thought of an non-colored interactive svg map, which I'm working on: basically a uniformly white or gray world map which outlines countries' borders on mouse hover without even coloring them. I ended making this colored map as a consequence of other problems (beginning with the most stupid one which had been this deletion per Copyrights violation [you need to be logged in to read the deletion log] a year ago), not because I was ever genuinely convinced to, indeed it reads too very unprofessional. SuperSucker (talk) 04:59, 3 December 2018 (UTC)

merging above 25 and 35 rates in one single interval

I'm also thinking of merging rates above 25 and 35 into one single interval. This way the left small map will look less red (yet the above 25 color will have to be slightly more reddish than the 25-35), and the legend will turn out to have a slightly different ending (the above 25 segment will have to be 50% longer). The reason for this is to simplify the whole 3-maps system as in "5 colors are enough". SuperSucker (talk) 14:23, 13 November 2018 (UTC) Note: when I do this I'm also thinking of moving the small maps at the top above the big ratios map and switching the legend upside down (this is to avoid the "inevitable sexual look" with the two smaller maps hosting the new legend within). SuperSucker (talk) 17:13, 14 November 2018 (UTC) Later added: maybe I'll be willing to switch 25 with 30 as well while I'm at it.. it makes a lot of sense. SuperSucker (talk) 03:41, 28 November 2018 (UTC)

Solved both of the above at the moment

I just uploaded a new version, basically carrying the improvements researched in the above two topics (somewhat more intuitively proportionate shades, and the introduction of a merging interval to have just five colors instead of six). Thus, at the moment I won't be switching the two smaller rates maps above the bigger ratios map now that I'm just happy with having introduced rate 30 as one of the intervals. SuperSucker (talk) 06:42, 29 November 2018 (UTC) Note: however, it doesn't look intuitive at all, so I shall soon look to decide for a better legend, something between a simple 15-30 legend (which would be a three-shades legend instead of five) and a 10-20-30 (even more intuitive, and four shades) or 10-20-30-40 (actually this is best, keeping five shades). Originally, the idea had been to have the legend's intervals alone communicate the high number of male suicides and at the same time that most suicides occur in <15 rates' countries (as only about 25% of global suicides occur in >15 rates' countries, the majority of the 200+ existing countries with below 15 suicide rates account for three times that, or something like that), but it's hard to read when there's a lot of information on the same image, so simplifying the rates' legend using five intervals in place of six was needed. What's important now, however, is that I got rid of the six-shades legend. SuperSucker (talk) 13:31, 29 November 2018 (UTC) Later added: I'm uploading a different legend now, with equally distant intervals, because the preceding one was far from being intuitive. SuperSucker (talk) 00:57, 1 December 2018 (UTC) Later added: per commitment at first topic above dated 10 November 2018, I just changed shades into mathematically proportionate ones at the two smaller rates' maps (I used units of 5 for HUE and 7 for LUMINOSITY, as per Inkscape's HSL algorithm): yet they remain perceptually nonhomogeneous, because human color perception is differently tolerant against any Red, Green, and Blue (for example, the Green is often weighted 5-6 times the Blue) on the grounds of brightness and even other aspects of human vision. Thus I may look to give the rates' legend an even more proportionate, still Yellow-to-Red color scheme (although I clearly have problems with it as the orange range is quite messy, ie. playing with the distance between yellow and orange with this calculator results in the distance both increasing and decreasing when removing Blue at certain RGB combinations), before simply going gray and interactive as mentioned in the above topic (on which I'm trying to work on whenever possible). SuperSucker (talk) 03:15, 1 December 2018 (UTC) Later added: I just changed the Yellow-to-Red range for better homogeneity and appropriateness using units of R-G-B of 7-23-5. Hope this helps to read the map. SuperSucker (talk) 23:25, 21 December 2018 (UTC)