August 15, 2016

Graph of the week

From a real estate agent who will remain nameless

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Another example of the rule ‘if you have to write out all the numbers, the graph isn’t doing its work.”

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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 »

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    steve curtis

    Average sale prices 1 day apart ? Do they mean 1 year ?

    8 years ago

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      Thomas Lumley

      I believe they mean a year apart.

      8 years ago

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    Pie charts are a poor choice most of the time, but this one is awful. It fails on just about every measure.

    8 years ago