The best part of this is the subtle implication that you can tell a million completely different stories with the same data.
71 0 ReplyHaving spent an unfortunate amount of time debunking bullshit statistics... yes.
21 0 ReplyYou just need to pick the pieces you want and discard/ignore the ones you don't!
12 0 ReplyAnd invent the special pieces you need to tell the story you want.
Where the fuck was that baseplate hiding?
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It's missing the original, before being reduced to data, being completely different from the "story".
51 2 ReplyNot to mention that the story quite obviously does not fit the data at all.
40 0 ReplyWell that's just statistics.
8 0 ReplyYeah, like where the hell is all the red? Either there's a secret chamber under the house, or there is a little bloodbath murder suicide happening in that house
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Where is all that yellow?
14 1 ReplyIn the lawnmower, the lights on the house, the flowers on the bushes, and in the giant lake of piss behind the house.
15 0 ReplyThere’s very little similarity between the pictures. White is the 3rd biggest stack, but you can see it’s not dominant on the data.
To;dr it’s all lies
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This was a poor analysis of the data.
12 0 Replythis is so freaking good, I cannot tell you how often I am told I have all the data and I should be able to make xyz work
and I am just a recently hired systems administrator that has to deal with my bosses paper notes and the person I replaced lack of documentation
10 2 ReplyPresented visually > Story
9 1 ReplyI hate when computer scientists use “sorting” for “ordering”. It’s been mistranslated into other languages, too.
8 0 ReplyI am very new to the world of CS but I appreciate precise vocabulary. Is my understanding below correct?
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Sorting = Assigning each object to one category ("bin").
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Ordering = Like sorting, but the categories themselves have an inherent hierarchy/order (numerical, alphabetical, etc.)
7 0 ReplyYes but people say “sorting algorithms” when describibg programs that put elements of a list in the correct order.
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sort, verb: "to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups"
3 0 ReplyRadix sort is truly a sorting algorithm though, it just results in an ordering.
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Where are all the yellow blocks in the final product? Why is nobody asking this?
7 0 ReplyThe yellow blocks didn't fit the desired story, so were disregarded as outliers.
10 0 ReplyThere's an inside...
1 0 ReplyWhere did the grass plates come from?
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And then when the house is disassembled into pieces again, its houseness lives on forever in heaven.
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