August 31, 2013

More misplaced creativity

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The site “WTF Visualizations” does basically what it says on the tin: collecting really badly-inspired data graphics. For example

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Some of the entries seem too good to be true, a suspicion reinforced by the fact that Google’s reverse image search can’t find them anywhere else on the web, but it is certainly entertaining.

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Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »