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James Scott-Brown
Software Engineer at . Previously D.Phil student in Synthetic Biology and , then RA in Visualization at .
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James Scott-Brown 23. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @Aearnus @alt_kia
And yet there is no recommendation against "skin sticks".
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James Scott-Brown 23. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @erikgahner @ikashnitsky i 2 ostali
One solution is to move the y-axis to the right-hand side, label the x-axis "Finding this much of the chemical network requires...", and label the y-axis "Log N experiments". I think readability would be improved by plotting N on a log-scale, rather than log(N) on a linear scale
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James Scott-Brown 22. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ghalimi
I think I saw a nice study of this, but can't find the reference right now.
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James Scott-Brown 22. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ghalimi
Judging the vertical thickness is not quite as easy a task as judging the length of parallel lines/bars. People don't necessarily judge the thickness in a vertical direction: they can be misled by looking at the thickness as would be measured horizontally or at an angle.
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James Scott-Brown 22. sij
It's a ("length proportional") "linear diagram" with coloured overlaps: I don't know of many tools for drawing them, but there is I generated this essentially from scratch using D3.js; I can share the code if that would be helpful
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James Scott-Brown 19. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @_mcnutt_
From Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations:
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James Scott-Brown 18. sij
Randomising the order of the items hides a lot of structure that could be seen if items belonging to the same combination of sets were positioned contiguously:
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James Scott-Brown 17. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @Richards_G_C @NDevito1 i 12 ostali
The sign up link seems to have been truncated: I think it should be
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James Scott-Brown 16. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @infowetrust @AlbertoCairo i 2 ostali
Direct link to this page:
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James Scott-Brown 10. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @mathisonian @ParametricPress
If a pitched article is accepted, when would the finished article be due?
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James Scott-Brown 4. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ghalimi
If a system provides a sufficiently elegant and concise way to specify graphics, you can use these specifications without needing new names as a shorthand, and users can directly specify encodings rather than being limited to picking from a chart catalogue.
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James Scott-Brown 4. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ghalimi
(Also, I noticed that Pictura cites Wickham as the 'first grammar of graphics' - what about Leland Wilkinson's The Grammar of Graphics?)
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James Scott-Brown 4. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ghalimi
Such an approach avoids the need for many names: there is no notion of a barchart that needs naming, just a mapping from data attributes to the visual attributes of bars (a nominal data attribute -> horizontal position, and a quantitative variable -> length).
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James Scott-Brown 4. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ghalimi
*Naming* specific types of charts seems orthogonal to creating a grammar in which they can be expressed. Whilst Principia Pictura includes a view composition algebra, it seems to be built on a taxonomy of base charts, rather than using a grammar to express the visual encoding.
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James Scott-Brown 4. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ghalimi
I understand the importance of formalization, but am less convinced about the importance of names. A system can generate draw a bar chart of average GDP, and then generate an appropriately descriptive subtitle without needing a new name that's more specific than bar chart.
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James Scott-Brown 4. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ghalimi
When plotting a barchart, what parameter would you assign a value that depended on whether the y-axis represents counts/frequency or a summary (e.g. mean)?
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James Scott-Brown 4. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ghalimi
Calling something a 'summary plot' rather than a 'bar chart' isn't helpful, because just telling me the plot/chart type doesn't tell me what variables are being plotted - and if you tell me this, then I don't need a distinction to be made by the chart name.
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James Scott-Brown 4. sij
Odgovor korisniku/ci @ghalimi
It's a bar chart. Specifically, it's a bar chart *of average GDP per capita by continent*. Bar charts of summary statistics don't have or need a dedicated name, because the fact that they show summary statistics is communicated by the description of what is plotted.
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James Scott-Brown 31. pro
Odgovor korisniku/ci @eleanor_lutz @IFSClimbing
This is very nice. As a refinement, have you considered using a small diagram in place of the color legend - e.g., something like this?
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James Scott-Brown 29. pro
Odgovor korisniku/ci @JessicaHullman @NElmqvist
I agree with 's arguments:
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