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Comment #40792739
I fully agree that appeals to authority should be ignored. My profile has nothing to do with how right or wrong I might be. Ad hominem arguments, however, should also be ignored. S…
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Comment #40792634
I naively assumed that ten years of teaching data visualization at NASA, Yale, Visa, the U.N., UofT, etc. would qualify me to write about something like this, but I guess not. Than…
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Comment #40792522
To clarify, I (article author) am not aware of any scenarios in which a box plot would be a better choice than simpler chart types, even for very sophisticated audiences. From the …
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Comment #40792441
As the author of the original Nightingale article that kicked off this (wild) thread, maybe I can clarify a few things: My fundamental concern with box plots is that no one has eve…