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Leaving the bar in five steps
Posted by Joachim Goedhart, on 24 March 2017
Introduction Graphs (or charts or plots) are often used for the display and summary of data. They are essential tools for the communication of results in presentations or manuscripts. One …
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#BarBarPlots!
Posted by Helena Jambor, on 31 August 2016
(or: how to avoid misleading representations of statistical data) Recently, a kickstarter project raised more than 3000€ in one month to campaign for banning the wrong usage of bar …
How to make colour blind friendly palettes, from regular contributor Jochim Goedhart.
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