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Also check the “Datasaurus Dozen”, with animations: https://www.autodesk.com/research/publications/same-stats-different-graphs https://www.autodesk.com/researc

• Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago
  They're awesome, never heard of those. Going to add at the end of my next stats-oriented slide deck to sow fear and loathing in mere mortals.
  • azalemeth 4y ago
    They're the single best example of why bar charts need to die that I think I've ever encountered. Particularly in biology, where you get two bars with maybe two error bars between them and the inevitable "*" – at best, something that conveys four independent numbers, badly; at worst, actively misleading. I'm very much with Tufte on the "data-ink ratio" being a good metric for a plot: violin plots have a lot of data and surprisingly little ink.
    • michaelmior 4y ago
      This really depends on what you're trying to convey. I think bar charts with (mostly non-overlapping) error bars in the appropriate context can be quite useful.