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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 month ago

All graphs are comparisons, and the relevance of this principle to practical advice for producing better graphs

Following up on this discussion from a few years ago, John Kastellec offers some practical advice for producing better graphs: In this short paper I present a few practical tips fo...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 month ago

Survey Statistics: dCV for MRP ?

Three weeks ago we learned about design-based cross validation (dCV), shown in Figure 1(d) of Iparragirre et al. (2023): Each dot is a PSU (primary sampling unit), which can be an...

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r-bloggers.com /1 month ago

Hourly Subway Station Flows

Pie charts are bad, as any fule kno. We’re not as good at judging relative differences between angles and areas as we are at judging relative differences in lengths on a common bas...

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flowingdata.com /1 month ago

Data portraits of population

To make India’s census documents more accessible to the public in the 1970s,…Tags: census, Diagram Chasing, illustration, India, population

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flowingdata.com /1 week ago

вњљ Weakness of a bar chart

This week, we talk limitations of the defaultiest of defaultiest chart types.Tags: options, precision, variation

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razzball.com /1 month ago

Stat Chat: Scatman Plotters And The New Scatter Plot Tool

One thing to know about me is I love a good scatter plot. The sight of a bunch of circles plotted along carefully selected measures that represent the x-axis and y-axis, with oddly...

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r-bloggers.com /1 month ago

CougarStats: a free and open-source Statistics web app for Teaching and Learning

Hello, I’d like to share CougarStats, a free and open-source R Shiny web app I developed to support the teaching and learning of Statistics. CougarStats runs entirely in...

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medium.com /1 month ago

Radar Charts Look Good. Mirrored Panel Plots Look Better.

Radar (spider) charts are often used when too many related variables need to be plotted at the same time. They look expressive; many…Continue reading on Medium »

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flowingdata.com /2 days ago

вњљ Visualization tools, resources, and data, May 2026 roundup

Every month I collect tools, data, and resources to make better charts. Here's what happened in May.Tags: roundup

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r-bloggers.com /1 month ago

Fun pictures with ggplot2 and scico packages

This wonderful post from Jonathan Caroll give me idea to play with ggplot2 code and scico color palettes: Also see this toot from Stefan Siegert, inspiring! I took the code from th...

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r-bloggers.com /1 month ago

Understanding R’s `describe()` Function: A Complete Guide to Summary Statistics

Understanding R’s describe() Function: A Complete Guide to Summary Statistics Table of Contents Introduction to describe() Breaking Down the Output Columns Key Statistics an...

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rubyflow.com /2 weeks ago

CSV → chart in a few lines.

https://rubystacknews.com/2026/05/10/%f0%9f%9a%80-introducing-ruby-charts-native-charts-for-ruby/

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 month ago

Survey Statistics: exploded logit !

Two weeks ago we modeled vote choice with candidates C = {Left, Right, Other} as a multinomial logit: P[voter i chooses candidate c from C] = exp(f(X_ic)) / sum_c’ exp(f(X_ic’)) We...

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awealthofcommonsense.com /1 week ago

Stories vs. Statistics

How to tell finance stories. The post Stories vs. Statistics appeared first on A Wealth of Common Sense. ...

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kieranhealy.org /1 week ago

Zero Sum Problems and Apple Sports

Kieran Healy kindly accepted my implicit homework assignment yesterday, and wrote a piece on Apple Sports’s bizarre “zero sum” team stats visualization: It also doesn’t do away...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 month ago

Should French pollsters be using Mister P?

An anonymous statistics student from France sends in the above plots (click twice to see big versions) and writes: I’m trying to push French pollsters to start doing MRP. I made a...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 week ago

Survey Statistics: GREG

I just got to chat with Andrew and some of the authors of the MrPlew paper: Ryan Giordano, Erin Hartman, and Avi Feller. Lots more I have to digest here ! The paper came out while...

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /1 month ago

Survey Statistics: improving with structure

We’ve met Mr. P (Multilevel Regression and Poststratification). We’ve met Mrs. P (Multilevel Regression with Synthetic Poststratification). Now let’s meet Ms. P (Multilevel Structu...

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flowingdata.com /1 month ago

William S. Cleveland, RIP

William S. Cleveland, one of the most respected statistical visualization researchers of all-time,…Tags: obituary, William Cleveland

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flowingdata.com /2 weeks ago

вњљ Outside the bubbles

This week, we refresh an old chart with new data, interaction, and improved design.Tags: behind the scenes, social media

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statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu /2 days ago

Statistical analysis recapitulates the development of statistical methods

We ran this a few years ago but it remains interesting so I’m reposting: There’s a old saying in biology that the development of the organism recapitulates the development of the s...

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towardsdatascience.com /1 month ago

How To Produce Ultra-Compact Vector Graphic Plots With Orthogonal Distance Fitting

Generate high-quality, minimal SVG plots by fitting Bézier curves with an ODF algorithm. The post How To Produce Ultra-Compact Vector Graphic Plots With Orthogonal Distance Fitting...

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puzzling.stackexchange.com /1 month ago

Talking points of the puzzle

The theme of this puzzle is encoded and expressed in the form of data points in the following graph. There is a total of 12 data points in the graph. 11 linear data points are den...

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sheets.works /1 month ago

The Data Drop: Every iPhone

Just lovely data visualization work from Sheets.works — a consulting firm that specializes in, I swear, Google Sheets.  ★ 

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