Archive for March, 2009

Showing data underlying bar graphs

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

A few years ago, I posted on Edward Tufte's message board advocating that people show the data that underlie their bar graphs. Here's the thread. My post included this graphic meant to demonstrate the double standard for continuous data where the data is clearly shown on a scatterplot,  vs. categorical ...

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