nickdesb

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   by nickdesb 2y ago

   I fully agree that appeals to authority should be ignored. My profile has nothing to do with how right or wrong I might be. Ad hominem arguments, however, should also be ignored. Saying that I'm unqualified doesn't prove anything
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   by nickdesb 2y ago

   I naively assumed that ten years of teaching data visualization at NASA, Yale, Visa, the U.N., UofT, etc. would qualify me to write about something like this, but I guess not. Thanks for setting me straight :-) BTW, what terminology was I u
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   by nickdesb 2y ago

   To clarify, I (article author) am not aware of any scenarios in which a box plot would be a better choice than simpler chart types, even for very sophisticated audiences. From the article: "Other reviewers suggested that the conclusion
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   by nickdesb 2y ago

   As the author of the original Nightingale article that kicked off this (wild) thread, maybe I can clarify a few things: My fundamental concern with box plots is that no one has ever shown me a single scenario in which a given insight was cl