See also: Blank Space by David W. Marx, which argues that aesthetic fragmentation and other forces have resulted in 21st century cultural stagnation.
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See also: Blank Space by David W. Marx, which argues that aesthetic fragmentation and other forces have resulted in 21st century cultural stagnation.
Why do people mention which slop bot made something for them? Brand loyalty? Why not say nothing and let people think you used your own knowledge and abilities?
Thumbnail from a review of a "dataviz for kids" book.
What is with all the "📊 for kids" books lately?
Is it just slop bots driving the cost of illustration to zero?
Do parents really buy these to read to their kids? Is it a résumé padding exercise for the authors?
160 CAD for the hardcover!?
Juxtaposed horizontal bar graphs using slightly different scales.
"Nothing is lost by adding the second graph."
Sure, except for a consistent scale. 📊
Cantor's theorem is 135 years old. How much longer until it has been sufficiently communicated to the public?
The StatsCan website is baffling.
Every dataviz product is meticulously documented with authorship, update cadence, underlying datasets, keywords, related outputs... everything but a link to the actual viz! 📊
Once you know to look out for conditioning on the outcome, you see it sneaking up on you around every corner!
I wonder whether the categorization of farmers into "large" and "small" in the data used for this visualization 📊 of income inequality in 19th c. France amounts to conditioning on the outcome. Or maybe it's by acreage?
freerangestats.info/blog/2026/02...
From the first and second editions of @rmcelreath.bsky.social's Statistical Rethinking. 📊
I'm guessing this is with the water already at a full boil, which is never how I cook pasta.
I guess the orange line starts past combat age so it must be.
Those born in 1919 were the right age to die in WWII, or is that already accounted for here?
A chart with overlapped bars.
Am I wrong to think that overlapping bars is just straightforwardly an error? Now area (and thus visual impact) is no longer proportional to the data. Maybe I'm too VDQI-pilled? #dataviz 📊
(Chart from SWD: Before & After)
Well, @newyorker.com... is this "re-signed" or "resigned"? Why leave this at a line break? You'll use the dieresis but not the double hyphen?
The first portrait of Gutenberg appeared 99 years after his death, so the likeness here is, unfortunately, just a guess at what he might have looked like.
Dumbbells with three ends each?
"Electrons" seems like a strange way to describe a category of energy sources. Wood and coal contain electrons!
Chapter 6 of Casella & Berger is a real page-turner!
It's a bit funny to read them introduce the likelihood principle and credible intervals while carefully avoiding the term "Bayesian".
Why split USSR/Russia but combine Qing/ROC/PRC, I wonder? What's the rule here?
"There is a strong relationship, but it isn't statistically significant."
This frequentism stuff has absolutely cooked people's brains.
At first I thought I'd like this better with filled, triangular arrowheads, but upon further reflection I think this style makes it more obvious where the data points are.
Is there an unconscious tendency to imagine the data point in the centre of a filled arrowhead instead of at the tip?
@allendowney.bsky.social on Hempel's raven paradox.
I like the heatmaps visualizing the joint posterior distributions in each scenario.
www.allendowney.com/blog/2025/12...
A screenshot of a page from an issue of Visible Language hand-lettered in Gunnlaugur SE Briem's distinctive style.
Especially check out the issue that was entirely hand-lettered by the great Gunnlaugur SE Briem.
The archives of the journal Visible Language, which has published interesting articles on #dataviz 📊 in addition to typography, calligraphy, spelling reform, and many other interesting things, are available for free online: journals.uc.edu/index.php/vl...
8 1/2 is the most overrated work of art in any medium ever made.
Can you guess which basic #dataviz errors this graphic features?
Why in the world wouldn't the colour mapping be the same across the four donuts?
And why not a 100% stacked bar chart instead of donuts?
Just like movies about making movies, data graphics about making data graphics are never good.
Screen-shot of wirecutter page with a big titel that says "The Best Bar Carts"
I'm not proud to tell you that I clicked this Wirecutter article fully believing it was about the 📊 Best Bar Charts.
If you're looking for more on this sort of thing, what we did here was "enumerate non-decreasing sequences".
A lot of these elementary enumeration problems hinge on recursion: a non-decreasing sequence of length n+m is comprised of one of length m glued to the end of one of length n.
