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Re:Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupy... by mejutoco on Friday May 20, 2022 @01:49PM (#31450538)
A good example of what you are warning against is Anscombe’s quartet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe's_quartet

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Re:Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupy... by santiagobasulto on Friday May 20, 2022 @01:57PM (#31450613)
Histograms and Boxplots (and IQRs) don't lie tho...
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Re:Mito – Excel-like interface for Pandas dataframes in Jupy... by mrbungie on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:33PM (#31451598)
Boxplots don't lie, but they can mislead as any summary statistic, data viz or model can. https://blog.bioturing.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/BoxVio...

Misleading histograms depend totally on the bin-width tho.

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