Re:I've Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?
by munch117 on Sunday June 23, 2024 @06:16AM
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Isn't that the whole point? That the graph type is very easy to misunderstand. If you are right, and not even a professional data visualization consultant properly understands the graph, then who will?
Some of us are perfectly qualified to understand them and the nuances.
Re:I've Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?
by munch117 on Sunday June 23, 2024 @06:53AM
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A plot that requires the reader to be perfectly qualified is a bad plot.
They teach this to 15 year olds in the UK.
If it's a bad plot, perhaps some introspection is required...
Re:I've Stopped Using Box Plots. Should You?
by magicalist on Sunday June 23, 2024 @02:59PM
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They also teach pie charts and use color scales with non-uniform brightness. Just because it's possible to read a plot doesn't make it a good plot.
People waltz in with assumptions and then complain when they don’t work because they don’t really understand the tools they are using. The author is one of them. It’s a bad article and the author should not be using or demonstrating things they clearly don't understand.