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[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The best part of this is the subtle implication that you can tell a million completely different stories with the same data.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

Having spent an unfortunate amount of time debunking bullshit statistics... yes.

[–] NounsAndWords 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You just need to pick the pieces you want and discard/ignore the ones you don't!

[–] paraphrand 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And invent the special pieces you need to tell the story you want.

Where the fuck was that baseplate hiding?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The baseplate came from the green in the bar graph. As we know all, the base plate is the foundation for any major project. Regardless that the bar graph shows little green compared to everything else. Green is far more important and we should focus all our efforts on the color green.

In a major coincidence, green is the color of money and I am now moving into a bigger house.

Edit: The fact that I got upvotes for a poorly written post amazes me.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's missing the original, before being reduced to data, being completely different from the "story".

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Not to mention that the story quite obviously does not fit the data at all.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well that's just statistics.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

The relationship between statistics and the base facts is the difference between it being a useful tool or the butt of a Mark Twain's joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, like where the hell is all the red? Either there's a secret chamber under the house, or there is a little bloodbath murder suicide happening in that house

[–] loudmicro 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

In the lawnmower, the lights on the house, the flowers on the bushes, and in the giant lake of piss behind the house.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

There’s very little similarity between the pictures. White is the 3rd biggest stack, but you can see it’s not dominant on the data.

To;dr it’s all lies

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

This was a poor analysis of the data.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Presented visually > Story

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

this is so freaking good, I cannot tell you how often I am told I have all the data and I should be able to make xyz work

and I am just a recently hired systems administrator that has to deal with my bosses paper notes and the person I replaced lack of documentation

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I hate when computer scientists use “sorting” for “ordering”. It’s been mistranslated into other languages, too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I am very new to the world of CS but I appreciate precise vocabulary. Is my understanding below correct?

  • Sorting = Assigning each object to one category ("bin").

  • Ordering = Like sorting, but the categories themselves have an inherent hierarchy/order (numerical, alphabetical, etc.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Yes but people say “sorting algorithms” when describibg programs that put elements of a list in the correct order.

[–] LwL 3 points 7 months ago

sort, verb: "to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups"

[–] Wilzax 1 points 7 months ago

Radix sort is truly a sorting algorithm though, it just results in an ordering.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Where are all the yellow blocks in the final product? Why is nobody asking this?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

The yellow blocks didn't fit the desired story, so were disregarded as outliers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Where did the grass plates come from?

[–] mriormro 1 points 7 months ago

There's an inside...

[–] humorlessrepost 3 points 7 months ago

And then when the house is disassembled into pieces again, its houseness lives on forever in heaven.