Displaying uncertainty
Currently making the rounds of the Internet, a barchart that animates to show uncertainty, from Oliver Hawkins. The basic data are on immigration to the UK, and a traditional way to show the uncertainty (if you were going to both) would be with error bars. Click on the image to go to the animated version.
Those of you who are NZ high-school teachers or students may recognise this idea from Chris Wild’s Visual Inference Tools
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 »