Today's Sketch a Day prompt was "sector" which... what kind of prompt is that?!

So I decided to commit a #GraphCrime.

(I was mostly just in a mood to color, but starting work tomorrow, my students and their addiction to comfort pie charts are on my mind.)

Aina välillä #VM:n julkaisema diagrammi tulee mieleen. Nyt sen innoitti vastaavasta vaivasta kärsivä diagrammi, jonka @futurebird (englanniksi) tuuttasi (https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/110761686562565583).

Näyttää siltä, että avoimia työpaikkoja olisi ollut koko ajan enemmän kuin työttömiä työnhakijoita, mutta pystyakselien suuruusluokat ovat erit.

Muistaakseni kuva poistettiin pikaisesti, kun yleisö kommentoi tätä epäselvää viestiä.

#Tilastorikos #GraphCrime

@stlouisfed posted this graph crime over at the birdsite. The psychology of authors of such graphs fascinates me. #graphcrime #badgraphs

What kind of sadist makes a Venn diagram like this? Some sections are labelled "?", like it's a quiz! #GraphCrime

These two farcical graphs were in the same paper #GraphCrime

@ct_bergstrom

"worst examples of a #DatavizFail #GraphCrime" seems a bit overstated to me. it's more on the funny side imho. but I agree that careful reviewing/editing should not have let it pass.
see tomorrow's post in Small Things Considered (https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/)

@ct_bergstrom the real #GraphCrime is using a bar plot for a statistic that doesn't represent count or proportion data.

Yesterday in my BIO/INFO 270 class I lectured about predatory publishing. Whether or not you think Hindawi falls into that category, they need to be doing a much better job of vetting the articles they publish.

Via Josemari Feliciano over at twitter, one of the worst examples of a #DatavizFail #GraphCrime that I've ever seen from this paper:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2022/3802603/

Look closely: These are not error bars. They are literally the typeset letter "T" placed atop each bar in the bar graph.

Yesterday I lectured about predatory publishing. Whether or not you think Hindawi falls into that category, they certainly could be a doing a much better job of vetting the articles they publish.

Via Josemari Feliciano over at twitter, one of the worst examples of a #DatavizFail #GraphCrime that I've ever seen from this paper:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2022/3802603/

Look closely: These are not error bars. They are literally the typeset letter "T" placed atop each bar in the bar graph.

#DataViz

Yesterday I lectured about predatory publishing. Whether or not you think Hindawi falls into that category, they certainly could be a doing a much better job of vetting the articles they publish.

Via Josemari Feliciano over at twitter, one of the worst examples of a #DatavizFail #GraphCrime that I've ever seen from this paper:
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/amse/2022/3802603/

These are not error bars. They are literally the typeset letter "T" placed atop each bar in the bar graph.

#DataViz