Presenting new 📊 work at tomorrow's UK Healthcare TUG, absurdly asking: Can some charts be deadly?! Could visualizing population mortality risk plausibly, conceivably, maybe, actually increase population mortality risk? And... could we solve this with design? usergroups.tableau.com/events/detai...
Lol, maybe I'm in too deep, but that reads pretty clearly to me?! If I were asking my 4yo, I might have said "is the line GOING UP UP UP?! or STAYING FLAT FLAT FLAT?!" 🫠
Here's a million-gif writeup on HOPs (Hypothetical Outcome Plots 📊), which use animation to simulate how values might vary (e.g. around an average) instead of just showing the distribution directly, so it's a way to "experience" uncertainty. via @kalealex.bsky.social@jessicahullman.bsky.social.
In daily life, we often find ourselves trying to separate signal from noise. For example, do the monthly job numbers to the left suggest a…
Tampa meteorologist describes how to read Hurricane Milton's cone of uncertainty. "The center could be up here. It could be here. It could be here. It could be all the way down here." He's pretending to be a Hypothetical Outcome Plot 📊... youtu.be/sI3jJM19Fe8?...
YouTube video by 10 Tampa Bay
Hurricane Helene's death toll (now at 189) ranks behind only Katrina (2005) and Camille (1969). It's true toll will take years to unfold www.scientificamerican.com/article/hurr...
I wrote a bash script to scrape the per-county power outage data, used CSVKit to convert the JSON to a CSV, took the CSV into Google Sheets and XLOOKUP'ed the FIPS codes into it, and got this map: www.nbcnews.com/news/weather...#Helene
I don't feel like the national media is conveying right now what a catastrophe is unfolding in western North Carolina.
How is it okay for straight reporting to speculate on intent? If we're just projecting, why not "seeking to aid middle class"? Or make it fun? "seeking to appease the extravagant demands of Taylor Swift's debauched cat, promotes manufacturing as cover for domestic catnip production conspiracy"?!
Fun fact: When George Gallup started the Gallup Poll in 1935, his first customers were all newspapers looking for content. "Modern polling" was for "the clicks" from the very beginning.
As Todd Rose writes about how the average person doesn’t exist (www.toddrose.com/endofaverage), Mark Humphries writes here about how the average neuron may not exist. It is easy to forget forget that averages, for all their statistical convenience, were never meant to capture reality.