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Beyond Bar and Line Graphs: Time for a New Data Presentation Paradigm
- baldfat 11y agoI agree BUT it really is to the audience which you are presenting. It was a several year fight to stop pie charts at my work. It is almost like if it isn't a default in Excel people struggle to grasp other forms of visual representations. Normally if I need to go beyond a line or bar I feel the need to present the raw numbers first and than put in whatever figure I created that I feel communicates the numbers in a way people will understand. Still it causes friction due to people's tendencies to just use pie, bar and line. Everything else has a certain unknown magic to certain people and they feel like someone is trying to nuance something away.
- _-__--- 11y agoPie charts aren't typically heaps useful when presenting experimental results, but I get your point. Stats in the biosciences are in a ~ish state atm. I agree with the article - just slapping down a bar plot of means and scribbling a p < 0.05 rating on it isn't giving people the whole picture.
- DLarsen 11y agoReminds me of Tufte: "There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design."
- egocodedinsol 11y agoFWIW, and this is a very common misconception, nonparametic tests in general do make assumptions about the distribution of data. Sometimes quite strong ones.
- Trombone12 11y agoThat is quite a grand title for what is essentially the remark that you can just make a scatter plot if you have few points. Which is a good observation, but I feel it strains the meaning of "paradigm" a bit.