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In my introductory programming class, we teach a few basic forms of chart visualization. By far, students struggle the most with Histograms. Even more frustrati
by acbart 9y ago
In my introductory programming class, we teach a few basic forms of chart visualization. By far, students struggle the most with Histograms. Even more frustrating, they love line plots and attempt to use them everywhere. Despite my explanations that you can almost always use histograms, and you can almost never use line plots! Yet they go with what they find more intuitive...
- pletnes 9y agoDepends what you're doing I'd say. In physics based modeling, which is used more in e.g. engineering, line plots are often very useful. When examining noisy real world data, not so much.