Terrible graphs

[nekomatic]

Look how much China spends on its military!

[shpalman]

Look how much China spends on its military!

There were those who tried to correct by image manipulation it but didn't take account of the right y-axis having tics every 100 instead of 50; the correct answer is of course to replot the data at the source:

https://twitter.com/ShangguanJiewen/sta ... 8312864769

[jimbob]

AMap.

And it took me a bit too long to see what the problem was

https://twitter.com/TerribleMaps/status ... m3sH6A1vNw

I quite liked these replies to my quote tweet

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https://twitter.com/Marco_Piani/status/ ... m3sH6A1vNw

[Gfamily]

AMap.
And it took me a bit too long to see what the problem was

You're not alone at the most obvious map based one, but there are multiple other problems with the data, the colours, the groups ...

[Fishnut]

Any ideas what it's actually trying to show? Even beyond the obvious problems with the southern continent, it looks like it's saying there's only one species of perching bird in most of North America.

[Martin Y]

It's showing an example of a planet with between 0.5 and 1.5 perching birds in Upper Africa?

[jimbob]

Any ideas what it's actually trying to show? Even beyond the obvious problems with the southern continent, it looks like it's saying there's only one species of perching bird in most of North America.

It is possible that it's photoshopped (although the textbook does have lots of maps with overlapping bins

0-50, 50-100 etc

[monkey]

This is a figure from a paper in Science Advances. They might well have found something out, but I haven't checked because it just looks like they're taking the piss to me.

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Image source: clicky

Paper: clicky

[dyqik]

Any ideas what it's actually trying to show? Even beyond the obvious problems with the southern continent, it looks like it's saying there's only one species of perching bird in most of North America.

It is possible that it's photoshopped (although the textbook does have lots of maps with overlapping bins

0-50, 50-100 etc

That's OK for continuous variables, where the edge of one bin is only infinitesimally distant from the next. But not for discrete values like "number of species".

[jimbob]

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[dyqik]

https://twitter.com/shashj/status/16252 ... h_AcHicgUg

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Thanks to that, I've now got some idea of how big Nelson's Column is.

[JQH]

How well does it fly?

[dyqik]

How well does it fly?

Depends which direction you want it to fly in.

And how many pigeons you glue to it.