Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM by Databricks

Re:Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM by Data... by tylermw on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @11:36AM (#39840643)

I believe they are using the percentages as part of the height of the bar chart! I thought I'd seen every way someone could do dataviz wrong (particularly with a bar chart), but this one is new to me.

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Re:Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM by Data... by familiartime on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @12:14PM (#39841123)

That's really strange and incredibly frustrating - but slightly less so if it's consistent with all of the bars (including their own).

I take issue with their choice of bar ordering - they placed the lowest-performing model directly next to theirs to make the gap as visible as possible, and shoved the second-best model (Grok-1) as far from theirs as possible. Seems intentional to me. The more marketing tricks you pile up in a dataviz, the less trust I place in your product for sure.

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Re:Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM by Data... by radicality on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @12:04PM (#39841019)

Wow, that is indeed a novel approach haha, took me a moment to even understand what you described since would never imagine someone plotting a bar chart like that.

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Re:Introducing DBRX: A New State-of-the-Art Open LLM by Data... by pandastronaut on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @11:47AM (#39840792)

Interesting! It is probably one of the worst trick I have seen in a while for a bar graph. Never seen this one before. Trust vanishes instantly facing that kind of dataviz.

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