Daniel Hoffmann🌻Dec 10, 2024
Given their wide use and proneness to misinterpretation, #barcharts are probably the worst data #visualisation https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03996-w
Bad bar charts are pervasive across biology

Scientific ‘shorthand’ could be introducing data distortions into published papers.

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@Daniel_Hoffmann

Instead of citing the Nature " #barcharts are misinterpreted" pseudo-news report, I recommend going back to the original preprint, which makes makes a positive case for what one should do to best communicate data. #visualization

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.09.20.609464v2.full

Dec 10, 2024 at 11:58amWeb
Show threadDaniel Hoffmann🌻Dec 10, 2024
@adredish Thanks for the shortcut to one of the pre-prints cited in the nature piece. However, the nature piece references also other helpful work not cited in that pre-print. In my opinion it is therefore still of value.