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  • sltkr 16 hours ago
    The water glass animation looks nice I guess, but this has to be the worst possible way to present this data?

    Compare it with e.g. Wikipedia here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_access_to...

    The tables allow you to quickly find the countries with the highest and lowest values, which is impossible on your site, and the map is helpful to give a general overview of how the numbers vary between global regions.

    Some more concrete feedback:

      1. The "Update Data" button seems unnecessary here, since there is only one input element: why not just update the graphic whenever the country listbox changes value?
      2. The country listbox is not keyboard navigable.
      3. The countries without data should be greyed out in the listbox.
    
    Not to be rude, but if you're a designer, surely some of these should have already occurred to you?

    edit:

    And a few other things, the way countries are named is wildly inconsistent, varying from common names to official names and various arbitrary qualifiers.

    For example, why is there a "Saint Martin (French part)" but there is no "Sint Maarten" or "Saint Martin (Dutch part)"? Why is Iran listed as "Iran (Islamic Republic Of)" but the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is simply "Pakistan"? Why is the Republic of Belarus "Belarus" when we have "Republic of Moldova", speaking of which, why isn't the latter "Moldova (Republic of)" which is consistent with Iran and would at least put Moldova in the right place alphabetically. Why is the Kingdom of Belgium "Belgium" but we have "Netherlands (Kingdom of the)". And so on.

    This comes across as if it was vibecoded in 30 minutes and little effort was put into polishing the data or the UI. In fact, I suspect I spend more time actually looking at the site _you_ created than you did before you posted it on Hacker News.