http://lastgraph.aeracode.org/
― jaymc, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img250.imageshack.us/img250/4891/ic5096vy1.gif
Here is my bro IC 5096. The black lines are contours of constant surface brightness of an image taken on a telescope outside Sydney in 1997. The red lines are my model galaxy, which is supposed to match the black lines. It does OK.
The axes are in units of arcsec, which is an angle rather than a distance. 1 arcsec = 1/3600th of a degree (i.e. not far). This galaxy is 40 Mpc = 130 465 450 light years away. At this distance 50 arcsec corresponds to about 10 kpc = 30 000 light years. This is about the distance from us to the centre of the Milky Way.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:09 (sixteen years ago) link
lol it's a vagina
― HI DERE, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/graphics/poster_cyclogram_big.gif
I have this on my living room wall. As ET would say, it is an image which rewards careful study (and not a 705x363px GIF).
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:11 (sixteen years ago) link
It does look a bit vajayjay. Astrophysics is full of them. Here is another, which is called "the finger of god":
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6825/images/410169ab.2.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Caek can you explain the Autistic Spectrum graph or gimme a link to the article it's from?
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i22.tinypic.com/29ks9ys.jpg
― StanM, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
That finger of god thing is what a perfectly spherical cluster of galaxies at a very large distance ends up looking like from Earth.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6825/full/410169a0.html
This redshift-space anisotropy should cause two characteristic effects, operating respectively on small and large scales. On small scales, random orbital velocities within galaxy groups cause an apparent radial smearing, known as 'fingers of God'. Of greater interest is the large-scale effect; if cosmological structure forms by gravitational collapse, there should exist coherent infall velocities, and the effect of these is to cause an apparent flattening of structures along the line of sight.
bong hit time.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i21.tinypic.com/eq2gj7.png
― StanM, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
nathan's famous contest winners: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1019/1106150394_3084623ad6_o.jpg
my commute home by bicycle: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2230/1638159993_528b8ae810.jpg
from tracer hand: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2058/1839391132_d4c011e7e6.jpg
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:17 (sixteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
xpost to NV, Found it on GIS. Taken from http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/v11/n1/full/4001750a.html (let me know if you don't have an institutional subscription and want to read the paper).
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Suicides on the Golden Gate by location. There are three very clear Gaussian peaks on this, and one day I am going to fit them using Bayesian statistics and win the Nobel prize for trivializing mental illness.
http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2005/10/30/mn_suicide30_loc_tt.gif
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/10/30/MNG2NFF7KI1.DTL&o=2
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
xp
Okay cheers - I'm guessing from the the magazine title its probably pitched at a level a bit beyond my needs/understanding tho.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
this thread is more amazing than i even imagined
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Strong peak in the centre facing toward the city, broad peak around the SF tower, secondary broad peak on the SF side for people too sad to walk out over the water : (, shadow peak facing out to the ocean, peak facing the city by Marin tower.
xpost, yes. Looks very technical. They seem to be looking for statistically significant genes for autism rather than talking about the psychology, which might be a bit more accessible.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
Powerpoint Gettysburg Address:
http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/img005.gif
http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Nathan's Famous Graph is dope.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ej.iop.org/images/1742-5468/2006/02/P02006/Full/1773001.jpg
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/-search=37150849.1/1742-5468/2006/02/P02006
Also on the arXiv pre-editing for IOP style if you want to read it and don't have an institutional sub: http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0511215
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ej.iop.org/images/1742-5468/2006/02/P02006/Full/1773003.jpg
Figure 2. A collection of adjacent k = 3 k cliques centring on the rapper RZA found using the clique percolation method after the weighted edge disparity algorithm is run for X = 50. The community has red edges and sits over the network of all neighbours of the nodes in the community. All of the rappers with several exceptions such as Chuck D, Isaac Hayes, and Chris Rock are directly or indirectly affiliated with the Wu-Tang supergroup and their music labels. The highly clustered rappers in the middle of the diagram are the core members of the original Wu-Tang Clan group (GZA, RZA, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Method Man, Raekwon, Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, U-God). Plotted with the Kamada-Kawai graphing algorithm.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, this is starting to get like Boing Boing, so I am going to stop for now.
that one is v pretty
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
OK, two more. Complete map of the universe:
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~mjuric/universe/all100.gif
http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~mjuric/universe/
and finally, the reason why I need to stop going through my bookmarks looking for graphs and get back to work: the physics job market.
http://scienceblogs.com/principles/5404physics.gif
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
The universe got resized : ( Click link for the full-resolution awesomeness.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
whoaa
― rrrobyn, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Individual sheets without horizontal axes plotted, suitable for printing and taping together
on the back of my bathroom door opposite the bog in my old house. Good pooping.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.isi.edu/ant/address/it.15.all.16-subnet_stats.3px-per-point.annotated.png census of the internet
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 17:52 (sixteen years ago) link
(anybody who posts the xkcd drawing gets a slap)
also I think 114 and 115 got allocated to asia recently
Anything from xkcd on this thread gets a slap.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:00 (sixteen years ago) link
When I saw this thread title I thought of this thing that was on Metafilter the other day:
http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/jpcurve.png
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
What is a negative unemployment rate? Unfilled jobs/people?
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:15 (sixteen years ago) link
I think there's a negative correlation between inflation and the unemployment rate so they've reversed the unemployment axis for some reason: maybe to illustrate the similarity of the shape.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah, so by "(Minus) unemployment rate" they mean "unemployment rate x -1". In which case:
http://img235.imageshack.us/img235/6347/japanzl6.jpg
Hmm.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually the inflation axis looks a bit odd as well.
― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Engineering_and_technology
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Diagrams%2C_drawings%2C_and_maps
― El Tomboto, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:32 (sixteen years ago) link
caek u do astrophysics? I work for ApJ.
― dan m, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:47 (sixteen years ago) link
I could post a lot of graphs and visuals but I would be breaking copyright big time.
― dan m, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 18:48 (sixteen years ago) link
will u accept my paper y/n? Actually, it's going to MNRAS because of page charges ; ) Are you in production or editorial or marketing? I used to work in editorial for IoP in Bristol.
Posting figures = fair use (probably), and most of them are on the arXiv anyway, surely.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 19:02 (sixteen years ago) link
lol IOP... they're taking our jobs! I work for the UofC Press, on peer review and production. My old boss just accepted a position at IOP in the states, I'm hoping to get headhunted by him eventually :D
You're probably right about the figures, but I'd rather not chance it. It'd be kind of a shitty thing to bring down the credibility of the AAS!
― dan m, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 19:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I was on peer review and development ("publishing editor") for Journal of Physics A. IoP in the US is in Philadelphia, right? I never got a trip there out of that job, but I did get ones to San Francisco, Pisa and Bangalore, so it wasn't all bad.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 19:37 (sixteen years ago) link
As far as I know they're mostly in Philly, but the story is a new office is opening in DC, which is where my former boss is going.
Think I can get away with this one, though I am no physicist so I have no idea what it's about beyond pretty colors...
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1122/653521560_09b57a1062.jpg
― dan m, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Isn't that the Great Wall/Coma Cluster thingy on the Map Of Universe jpg?
― Just got offed, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 19:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Might just be the Orion Nebula, mind.
analysis of stereolab riffs: http://img124.imageshack.us/img124/6635/labrc1.gif
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 20:17 (sixteen years ago) link
It's probably a galaxy cluster. Contours are probably the same object at another wavelength, e.g. X-ray, which is a good thing to look at clusters in. Distance scale is much too small for the Great Wall and too large for a nebula.
― caek, Tuesday, 6 November 2007 20:19 (sixteen years ago) link
The graph I have been futzing with for two weeks. I want all 30 lines to flat and at y = 0.0.
This is what it looked like on Monday:
http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/9071/residualszp0.gif
Tuesday:
(link removed)
Today:
I'm here to tell you that this is the scientific enterprise. It's some bullshit.
― caek, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:17 (sixteen years ago) link
What is your model made of? What is it supposed to be used for when it works?
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 7 November 2007 21:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Hm, I think using both circle size and the Y axis to represent net absorption might be bad, because it makes the circle sizes more difficult to compare. If you want to represent net absorption by circle size, consider taking out the Y axis and just setting all the circles on the same horizontal line.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:42 (nine years ago) link
pplains, are you trying to demonstrate that the changes are mostly capricious/random or just that they can vary widely year-to-year? from looking at these i'd guess that something happened in 2013 4Q that lead to a huge boom in both commercial + industrial sectors?
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
I also think different sized squares would be a more easily interpretable indicator of area, because people aren't as good at perceiving that the outer parts of a circle contain more area (the famous "biggest pizza = best deal" thing)
― Dan I., Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
(Also, Dr. Malone, get one information criterion!)
― Dan I., Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/02/26/282132576/74-476-reasons-you-should-always-get-the-bigger-pizza
― Dan I., Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:48 (nine years ago) link
one problem with the circles (as used above) is that it can difficult to tell at a glance what the actual quantities are - is it the point at the middle of the circle? at the top edge? bottom edge? reasonable people could come to different conclusions, i think. it's really impossible to tell without labeling each of the individual circles, which you've done. but if you have to label each of the individual circles in order to communicate the quantities, then there's probably a better way to do it. also, Dan I otm about area vs radius vs diameter
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
And especially since some of the values are negative, it's better to just stick with the bar chart in your first image. Really feel like the human brain might have a problem interpreting the size of a thing on a plot as actually being the magnitude of the reduction in that thing.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:55 (nine years ago) link
you could implement a new system where you walk around the office giving tootsie rolls for every 1000 sq. ft. of net office space gained that quarter. if your company loses office space, then you take away an item on the person's desk for every 1000 sq. ft. lost. this simultaneously acts as an incentive system
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
You could change the unit from square feet to "# of john's houses" to point out to everyone how small your rival john's house is.
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
at the least there is a problem with the x positions of the circles. they are not regularly spaced in the x direction. is that real?
those plots are very hard to interpret imo. estimating areas of circles is something we are always terrible at. but in this case it's even harder because what you're trying to get across is conceptually complicated, and the range of point sizes you're using is colossal.
the bar chart in the first example is much clearer. i would stick with that tbh. if you want to explicitly include both the absolute value of SF and the change (i.e. net absorption) (which i don't think you need to, it's implicit, unless i've misunderstood net absorption), i would use two bar graph panels, one above the other, sharing an x axis
x = timey1 = square feety2 = net absorption
― caek, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
These are really helpful, I mean it.
The circles do represent area, flat two-dimensional area. This is why I wanted to run with showing the different sizes.
I'm showing how little I know about algebra by not quite understanding the difference between diameter and area. I read the blog about the State of the Union address and didn't quite get what the fuss was about.
(Though if it means anything, I understand why there was a fuss and why I would want to avoid making that mistake even if I'm not sure what the mistake was. How's that for clarity?)
I based the circles off of the area in this way: I somehow did the calculations of what the square root of 448,568 would be. I then put those x,y coordinates into the "exact ratio" field of the circle selection tool, so it would be perfect circle. Then I based the ratios of the other circles on that. Is this voodoo economics?
And fwiw, these graphs never appeared together. Even if they weren't part of the slide, it would still bug me that the circles would be the same size despite one being 448K and the other being -64K.
then there's probably a better way to do it.
oh most indeed.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:09 (nine years ago) link
The x positions, the number of square feet, are accurately pinpointed by the white squares. If it was a bar graph, the bars would rise and fall exactly to those spots on the graph.
The circles are illustrations only.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:11 (nine years ago) link
I have no idea if I answered that question or not.
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:12 (nine years ago) link
standard advice is don't use the size or area of symbols on the page to represent any important data, because people can't "read" it
your first bar chart has the same data in it and is familiar and easy to read.
― caek, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
why aren't the centres of the circles on the white points?
― caek, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:14 (nine years ago) link
oh wait. i had totally been misreading your graphs. they are very confusing!
my points still stand. i think you need to get rid of the circles.
― caek, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
this is not a minor thing. it's a huge flaw in the approach.
if area of the circle represents the data, and you have positive and negative data, then negative changes should have circles with negative areas. this is not possible.
― caek, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:19 (nine years ago) link
things you can't do when you have positive and negative data:
log plotsarea plots
― caek, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
you could compare the area to the peak area, which you could show for scale, and never go negative. but you shouldn't.
― chikungunya manatee (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:21 (nine years ago) link
I'm starting to think I'm bombing on these.
Another stat that I thought wasn't being illustrated correctly has to do with unemployment figures. Usually, those are in bar graph form from month to month or by region, pretty straight forward.
http://assets.inarkansas.com/47290/arkansas-unemployment-rate-2013-4q-general.jpg
But there's a weird anomaly that happens from month to month where the number of jobs/number of people changes. So you might have a month where there are more people working, but the unemployment rate goes up the number of jobs go up too.
I did my circle thing again and second-guessed later that I should've made the red unemployed figure go around the circumference of the blue ball so that it would match the green total ball.
But now, I feel like I should be working for Fox News or the Enquirer.
http://assets.inarkansas.com/51231/may-2014-employment-in-arkansas.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:23 (nine years ago) link
bar graphs aren't really performing any role when you can't visually tell the difference between them
― iatee, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
like it is a fox news graph in a sense "look the economy hasn't changed at all!!"
― iatee, Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:26 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sz2mmM-kN1I
― 龜, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 11:33 (eight years ago) link
http://gecon.yale.edu/
cool data set with economic output on a 1 degree latitude by 1 degree longitude
http://oi58.tinypic.com/24en8kh.jpghttp://oi58.tinypic.com/inxu87.jpghttp://oi60.tinypic.com/k13skz.jpg
― flopson, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 03:24 (eight years ago) link
grid
― flopson, Tuesday, 1 September 2015 03:25 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D6PtWdLXsAAgIht.jpg
― mookieproof, Saturday, 11 May 2019 03:46 (four years ago) link
- "Maybe we should get another usual suspect in the lineup besides the Indian woman."
- "But from where? Estonia? Venezuela? There aren't many other countries to choose from!"
― pplains, Saturday, 11 May 2019 03:55 (four years ago) link
Look at the difference between 5’4” and 5’5” on the y-axis, compares to between 5’0” and 5’1”
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 May 2019 04:02 (four years ago) link
Other than that, great chart design!!
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Saturday, 11 May 2019 04:03 (four years ago) link
The Latvian woman is huge and the woman from India is tiny to visually convey the fact that Latvia has a female population at least ten times larger than the female population of India.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 11 May 2019 05:00 (four years ago) link
The sum of the height of all the Indian women will be more though. Is there a graph of that?
― StanM, Saturday, 11 May 2019 05:25 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D7K2CkyXkAAEJKT.jpg
― mookieproof, Thursday, 23 May 2019 20:05 (four years ago) link
that was so upsetting. Also needs the the n/2+7 line drawn on as well
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Thursday, 23 May 2019 20:12 (four years ago) link
is there a name for a visualization that would accomplish the following?
i want to compare two populations that each have two subsets--say one of them is 15M people total, then 4M of those people meet a specific condition, and 1.9M of those 4 meet a further specific condition. and the other population has the same conditions but completely different proportions.
so basically like a treemap but instead of the whole area adding up to the total it would have proportional smaller rectangles embedded within a big rectangle? is this even a thing?
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 03:41 (four years ago) link
would a simple stacked bar graph do the trick? here are two that meet your requirements:https://i.imgur.com/me2obge.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/sW9m0c5.png
the first shows two populations of different sizes, the second shows two population of equal sizes.
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
or wait, i see what you're saying. subsets within subsets. if that's the case, you could just color code the results. 11M non-diarrhea, 6 million with diarrhea. non-diarrhea is a deep calm blue, diarrhea is an agitated warm color. 4.1 million of the 6 million have severe diarrhea, so make that deep red. the other 1.9 million have moderate diarrhea, so make that orange.
https://i.imgur.com/eZND3qv.png
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 04:15 (four years ago) link
or, to go to your op, a tree map, and just format the results to highlight the groupings you want
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link
Karl I am gonna need seventeen more made up diarrhea graphs on my desk by COB tomorrow.
― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 04:36 (four years ago) link
i'm glad i processed those extra participants' waivers during my lunch break yesterday, sunday, instead of eating
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 04:45 (four years ago) link
"Beginner's Diarhhea"!
― zuck zuck lucify (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 06:22 (four years ago) link
What a wonderfully misleading diagram in the Times today 📈 pic.twitter.com/isQtZS6Mot— Will Bailey-Watson (@mrwbw) June 27, 2022
― koogs, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 13:29 (one year ago) link
loooooooool
An analysis looks at how defense spending among the nations with the highest expenditures has changed since 1992 and what may have driven the changes https://t.co/3ln08vOKAo pic.twitter.com/yqK6MqwQUm— St. Louis Fed (@stlouisfed) January 22, 2023
― Karl Malone, Monday, 23 January 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link
https://i.redd.it/cxtoiiuy9l9b1.png
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 3 July 2023 20:11 (nine months ago) link
see you there in April!
― assert (matttkkkk), Tuesday, 4 July 2023 00:31 (nine months ago) link