Vilhelm Rothe
Lot⁴⁹More thoughts on data presentation.
Bill Jorth
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Matinoitunut Rutkustaja
You'd do well in governments
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Æther~@enigmatico @12thRITS it was probably just 'no' a second time
Joe ❌👑@enigmatico The graph shows that 95% voted yes, in a weird way.
Megan Lynch (she/her)@12thRITS Thanks for providing an image description on this!
jomo
Reina 
Free Radical@12thRITS It’s important to give equal consideration to both sides.
Moved to @@12thRITS Depends. Are you trying to change someone who is dumb's mind, or are you trying to present insightful data to someone who knows how to interpret it? Audience is VERY important in any kind of communication.
Scott Michaud@12thRITS I saw one where they inverted the y axis (down was an increase).
raboof
William D. Jones@12thRITS For y-axes with large dynamic range: this is why John Napier invented the logarithm* :D.
* Might not be true.
theseege@12thRITS
It depends on the explication of the framing discussion?
It depends on the explication of the framing discussion?
James Endicott@12thRITS
Which is why all weather forecasts should use Kelvin?
Which is why all weather forecasts should use Kelvin?
Perspective
Chemistry Research
Helena Jambor 💔 🇮🇱 🇺🇦@12thRITS a classic my teaching..m
🎓 Doc Freemo 
🇳🇱@12thRITS Still one of my favorite memes :)
levampyre@12thRITS Nice. This would be a good example for teaching critical media competency.
Alaric@12thRITS jury's out then.
Geert Uytterhoeven@12thRITS The centering of the image in the unexpanded post proves the point even better.
Delaunayisation
Mirko Schenk@12thRITS There are cases where it can make sense. Like, climate change diagrams in Kelvin would look like a straight line. But there should at least be some "cutout wave" (no idea if there's an official term) to signal it.
TJ Radcliffe@mort @12thRITS Exactly this. The question is ill-posed, which is a much deeper problem that many people pontificating on data analysis and presentation don't even seem to be aware of. There is no substitute for taste and good judgement. One way to present things like climate data is to take the first derivative, so you end up with a natural zero and can see departures from it in either direction.
Lukas@12thRITS the righteous do-gooders insisting that "yes" is the only right answer are dividing the country!
Bakunin Boys@12thRITS This is fine but it does create the opportunity to create space to name the people who said no allowed this atrocity to happen.
enthraxxx@12thRITS And what about not showing X-axis ?
Helge@12thRITS Let's invite an equal number of participants from each side to debate the merits of "axis balancing".
slideman@12thRITS
Excellent
Excellent
mittfh@12thRITS Very reminiscent of the famous book "How to lie with statistics"...
paulisthrivving@12thRITS I think it can cause confusion, and miscommunication as opposed to dishonest; ‘Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals’ makes the point pretty clearly, a great read if you have not read it 😁
costrike
Ned Yeung@12thRITS 95% YES!!
DaviesofBrixton
Moved to @@12thRITS Why is this even a figure? It's just "95% yes."
Patrick Matthews
midzer@12thRITS "Spectacle is not primarily concerned with a looking at images
but rather with the construction of conditions that individuate, immobilize, and
separate subjects, even within a world in which mobility and circulation are ubiquitous." https://monoskop.org/images/0/0c/Crary_Jonathan_Suspensions_of_Perception_Attention_Spectacle_and_Modern_Culture_1999.pdf
but rather with the construction of conditions that individuate, immobilize, and
separate subjects, even within a world in which mobility and circulation are ubiquitous." https://monoskop.org/images/0/0c/Crary_Jonathan_Suspensions_of_Perception_Attention_Spectacle_and_Modern_Culture_1999.pdf
@12thRITS "Writing about visualisations in the media, Barnhurst (1994) also argues that they are tools of power because they ‘influence the perception of how the world works’" https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/93521/3/repository20.pdf
Stu Duerson, machina exo deusAbsofuckinglutely, truncating the y axis IS dishonest. I sat on a mock jury for one of this country's larger software developers. Their case, a BS case, was predicated primarily on a truncated graph. When that was pointed out to them, that's when they turned on the cameras and started scribbling furiously.
To me, the joke here is that nobody knows what the joke is, here.
Truncating has been used for decades (I remember Value Line graphs' extensive use of it), but it was really popularized by USA Today, back in the 70s-90s, purposefully helping dumb down America to its level.