Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
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Re: Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
#2Seaborn??? Typo surely
Edit: Not mentioned in the abstract but it is in the main paper. Editorialised title.
Re: Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
#3Seaborn??? Typo surely Edit: Not mentioned in the abstract but it is in the main paper. Editorialised title.
It's a statistics software package:
> A bug in the seaborn 0.11.2 plotting software [3], used by Park et al. [1], silently drops the largest data points in the histograms.
Re: Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
#4Seaborn??? Typo surely Edit: Not mentioned in the abstract but it is in the main paper. Editorialised title.
This threw me also. I was expecting a really different article.
Re: Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
#5Seaborn??? Typo surely Edit: Not mentioned in the abstract but it is in the main paper. Editorialised title.
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Re: Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
#6Seaborn??? Typo surely Edit: Not mentioned in the abstract but it is in the main paper. Editorialised title.
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Re: Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
#7The seaborn issue linked in the paper, “Treat binwidth as approximate to avoid dropping outermost datapoints” (https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn/pull/3489), summarizes the problem as follows:
> floating point errors could cause the largest datapoint(s) to be silently dropped
However, the paper does not contain the string “float”, instead saying only:
> A bug in the seaborn 0.11.2 plotting software [3], used by Park et al. [1], silently drops the largest data points in the histograms.
So at the very least, the paper is silent on a key aspect of the bug.
Re: Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
#8The graphing library caused this?
Re: Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
#9Bizarre. How do people make such big, splashy findings that can mess with people’s sense of optimism about science and innovation, without doing the simplest types of checks on their data and methodology.
Re: Seaborn bug responsible for finding of declining disruptiveness in science
#10Seaborn??? Typo surely Edit: Not mentioned in the abstract but it is in the main paper. Editorialised title.
It's referring to the seaborn library (https://seaborn.pydata.org/), a Python library for data visualization (built on top of matplotlib).