• @[email protected]
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    678 months ago

    The best part of this is the subtle implication that you can tell a million completely different stories with the same data.

    • Xariphon
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      198 months ago

      Having spent an unfortunate amount of time debunking bullshit statistics… yes.

      • paraphrand
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        88 months ago

        And invent the special pieces you need to tell the story you want.

        Where the fuck was that baseplate hiding?

        • @[email protected]
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          The baseplate came from the green in the bar graph. As we know all, the base plate is the foundation for any major project. Regardless that the bar graph shows little green compared to everything else. Green is far more important and we should focus all our efforts on the color green.

          In a major coincidence, green is the color of money and I am now moving into a bigger house.

          Edit: The fact that I got upvotes for a poorly written post amazes me.

  • @[email protected]
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    498 months ago

    It’s missing the original, before being reduced to data, being completely different from the “story”.

        • @[email protected]
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          48 months ago

          The relationship between statistics and the base facts is the difference between it being a useful tool or the butt of a Mark Twain’s joke.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        Yeah, like where the hell is all the red? Either there’s a secret chamber under the house, or there is a little bloodbath murder suicide happening in that house

    • @Test_Tickles
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      158 months ago

      In the lawnmower, the lights on the house, the flowers on the bushes, and in the giant lake of piss behind the house.

    • @[email protected]
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      68 months ago

      There’s very little similarity between the pictures. White is the 3rd biggest stack, but you can see it’s not dominant on the data.

      To;dr it’s all lies

  • @[email protected]
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    108 months ago

    this is so freaking good, I cannot tell you how often I am told I have all the data and I should be able to make xyz work

    and I am just a recently hired systems administrator that has to deal with my bosses paper notes and the person I replaced lack of documentation

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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    88 months ago

    I hate when computer scientists use “sorting” for “ordering”. It’s been mistranslated into other languages, too.

    • @[email protected]
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      78 months ago

      I am very new to the world of CS but I appreciate precise vocabulary. Is my understanding below correct?

      • Sorting = Assigning each object to one category (“bin”).

      • Ordering = Like sorting, but the categories themselves have an inherent hierarchy/order (numerical, alphabetical, etc.)

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech
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        38 months ago

        Yes but people say “sorting algorithms” when describibg programs that put elements of a list in the correct order.

  • @[email protected]
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    38 months ago

    And then when the house is disassembled into pieces again, its houseness lives on forever in heaven.