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This may come across as pedantic: I feel like you should never enable curve smoothing in these kinds of plots. Smoothing the curves makes it look pretty but the

by elteto 7y ago

This may come across as pedantic: I feel like you should never enable curve smoothing in these kinds of plots. Smoothing the curves makes it look pretty but then the plots are no longer entirely truthful.

hansvm 7y ago
For that matter though, a linear interpolation isn't a faithful representation of the data either. Would it not be better to just display the raw data in a scatter plot?
- elteto 7y ago
  Yes, that’s what I (implicitly) meant, but failed to mention. Thanks for the clarification.
- froh 7y ago
  Or both, overlay the scatterplot with an interpolation? ggplot is amazing at that.
rezeroed 7y ago
Would you get much more from those plots?
- elteto 7y ago
  I wouldn't say I get "more" from a scatter plot, it's just a matter of accuracy and trusting the data. Smoothed plots add slopes and transitions that just don't exist.