MrMitchWeaver
MrMitchWeaver t1_izhonye wrote
Reply to comment by zestyping in [OC] How to spot misleading charts? I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, also any tips design-wise? by dark_o3
That's not even misleading, that's a first-year graphic designer who smoked crack with a 14-year-old day trader and decided to make charts.
MrMitchWeaver t1_izgoma0 wrote
Reply to comment by spiral8888 in [OC] How to spot misleading charts? I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, also any tips design-wise? by dark_o3
In OP's chart the problem is more the scale than the start point, but it's always about context.
MrMitchWeaver t1_izgn5wo wrote
Reply to comment by spiral8888 in [OC] How to spot misleading charts? I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, also any tips design-wise? by dark_o3
I agree that it can be used to mislead but that isn't always the case.
Take disposable income. Straight from Fred. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DSPIC96
If you click on "view last 5 years" your Y axis is going to start way above zero. It just makes sense. If you click on "view max" you will get Y axis closer to zero because the range of values justifies it.
MrMitchWeaver t1_izgmap3 wrote
Reply to comment by bosschucker in [OC] How to spot misleading charts? I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, also any tips design-wise? by dark_o3
Of course it can be manipulated. As I said, it can be OK if the units are different or if the series have different standard deviations.
In every case it's important for the reader to look at the axes and draw their own conclusions.
I guess the larger lesson is Do Your Own Research.
MrMitchWeaver t1_izfknkm wrote
Reply to [OC] How to spot misleading charts? I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, also any tips design-wise? by dark_o3
1 is perfectly OK for when you need to zoom in to see the difference. Perhaps it can be better notified that the axis doesn't start at zero
2 is perfectly OK when you want to show correlation between to series that don't necessarily have the same unit or magnitude.
3 is the most questionable one because three years is a very short time frame (for some things). You can address that by adding a previous trend line.
I don't know if it qualifies as cherry picking though, or at least it's not what people mean when they use that term.
All in all these are not deceptive if you know how to look at a chart and if there's a modicum of context to the chart.
I appreciate the effort but not necessarily the execution.
MrMitchWeaver t1_izelh9c wrote
Reply to comment by fantasmoofrcc in Last Boeing 747 rolls off line after half a century of production by diacewrb
If the definition of gadget is "technological object that we find interesting regardless of size" I guess it fits the bill.
MrMitchWeaver t1_iycwts5 wrote
Reply to My great-great-great grandfather Samuel Logan Peters, 32nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry. 1861 (1170x1118). Shortly after enlisting at 18. Served under Grant at the Battle of Vicksburg, Shiloh and under Sherman in the “March to the Sea”. Mustered out 1865 and lived a long life thereafter by mrnastymannn
I think you're legally obligated to call him your great great great grandpappy
MrMitchWeaver t1_iycr40q wrote
When you say "Republicans vs Democrats" in that order it suggests that Republicans are on the numerator or at the top of the color scale. However, the top is blue and there is no legend.
So is blue Democrat or republican?
Also is it a difference in percentage points or a percent increase?
MrMitchWeaver t1_iy8wsww wrote
Looks like it's a mixed bag.
MrMitchWeaver t1_iy8w1yn wrote
Reply to comment by 55_jumbo in My mother (black tank) and her friends 1960's by animal_wax
Frank the tank! Frank the tank!
MrMitchWeaver t1_iy8w061 wrote
Reply to comment by YoureSoVague in My mother (black tank) and her friends 1960's by animal_wax
Before opening the picture I thought I was going to be an army picture.
MrMitchWeaver t1_iy8h2zo wrote
Reply to comment by HarleyyR in “stray” kitten in a closed bed store. owner i passed. what a great owner by HarleyyR
I still don't know what you meant by "owner I passed"
MrMitchWeaver t1_iy0dh9c wrote
Holy shit, I had no idea he was so ripped.
MrMitchWeaver t1_ixqnx0f wrote
Reply to TIL the first media report about the shift from lighters to the cellphone was a U2 concert in Chicago in 2005. by PlasterBaby
Literally yesterday I was wondering about this. Thanks.
MrMitchWeaver t1_ivosegx wrote
Reply to comment by MrMitchWeaver in Just a website I have created, it allows you to check if you would make any money investing in stocks based on alternative data such as Google Trends, Reddit Sentiment, Github commits to crypto projects, Wikipedia views, and many more. by inegyio
I changed one word in the github strategy and it no longer recognized the strategy. Changed buy to sell.
You have to write "Bitcoin (BTC)" in full for the text box to recognize it. One of the two should be enough, and it should probably suggest the full thing when you write "bit"
MrMitchWeaver t1_ivorkv2 wrote
Reply to Just a website I have created, it allows you to check if you would make any money investing in stocks based on alternative data such as Google Trends, Reddit Sentiment, Github commits to crypto projects, Wikipedia views, and many more. by inegyio
Needs a benchmark for comparison.
Also, it's not clear how much is being invested and at what point. It would be nice to have the chart illustrate entry points.
MrMitchWeaver t1_iv5e8fa wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in [OC] Japan's Retail Giants: Convenience Stores by Equal-Crew-3367
The pilots were technically kamikaze so all of this adds up
MrMitchWeaver t1_iuebvhx wrote
Reply to comment by ASpellingAirror in [OC] How employable different languages are in Singapore by hannigong4dmi
Should be ordered by some metric and should tell you the unemployment percent explicitly.
MrMitchWeaver t1_iuaipoh wrote
Reply to comment by AutoModerator in Bedtime procrastination helps explain the link between anxiety and sleep problems by thebelsnickle1991
I'll read this later.
MrMitchWeaver t1_itak91e wrote
Reply to comment by soldiernerd in 8K Industry Faces Challenge with New EU Regulatory Ruling by SalmonellaTizz
The same legislation that grants you the right to have an inefficient 8K TV in March 2023.
MrMitchWeaver t1_it9lnxa wrote
Reply to comment by NelchaelSS in 8K Industry Faces Challenge with New EU Regulatory Ruling by SalmonellaTizz
I'm going to have to go sentence by sentence because your comment is laughable.
> less peak power consumption will save the planet.
Partly, yes. Maybe not my TV specifically but billions of them working every day do have an effect.
> Better yet, stop eating meat & start eating bugs, they’re greener.
I try to cut back for sure, but me changing my diet for the rest of my life is absolutely not comparable to you having to wait a few months until the engineering is fixed. Not even a little bit.
> The amount of propaganda you guys eat from corporations and billionaires
You are literally defending the 8K lobby right now. They wrote the article that spawned this thread.
Remember when corporations told us that cigarettes didn't cause cancer?
Now they are telling us that they can't make efficient TVs.
Let's talk again in 12 months to see if they were able to decipher this unsolvable challenge.
> YOU as a person are 100% responsable for global warming is unbelievable
They don't say that and I don't believe it. I do believe we are all responsible of making green choices whenever we can by choosing to consume or not consume something, or to encourage or not encourage certain products and businesses. I don't encourage inefficient electronics.
> They live like kings, 1 polluting like 1 million of us pheasants,
I think you meant to say peasants. Yes, they are worse than us.
> but we must be held responsible for them.
No, each person is responsible for their own actions. They for theirs and we for ours.
> You guys can live like as you like,
Thank you for your permission. I will continue trying to not melt the planet.
> I have only 1 life
Fortunately.
> I won’t live like a dog.
So not getting an inefficient TV at an early date equates to "living like a dog." Gotcha. I'm going to try really hard to not die of laughter whenever I think of that.
MrMitchWeaver t1_it9b4qc wrote
Reply to comment by NelchaelSS in 8K Industry Faces Challenge with New EU Regulatory Ruling by SalmonellaTizz
Freedom to not die of global warming is a bigger right.
Your rights end where mine begin.
MrMitchWeaver t1_it9aupb wrote
Reply to comment by Ok-disaster2022 in 8K Industry Faces Challenge with New EU Regulatory Ruling by SalmonellaTizz
After hearing for decades of corporation shenanigans trying to avoid environmental standards I have ZERO empathy for them. Make it work, or don't sell it at all. 8K is not a human right FFS.
MrMitchWeaver t1_it976do wrote
Reply to [OC] Inflation rate and nominal interest rate by giteam
Majority doveish. Would be nice to see this chart again during a worldwide economic boom.
MrMitchWeaver t1_izhpvhn wrote
Reply to comment by realzequel in [OC] How to spot misleading charts? I would like to hear your opinion on the subject, also any tips design-wise? by dark_o3
Extremely common. One of the two series will clarify RHS to let you know that its axis is the one on the right.
I've even seen charts with three or more Y axes like two on each side.