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Net favorability of seven billionaires (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz
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[–] 2 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

I would prefer a table if I needed the figures that I could use. A bar chart is for a quick comparison by its very nature, and the left one suggests that the Toyota is using four times less fuel than the Honda.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    Toyota is using four times less fuel than the Honda.

    Only if you didn't read the figure. Which is the point. A car person would never make that mistake.

    And I promise, in figure making, we are almost always adjust axis to represent the range of the data. It would be ridiculous not to. It would be a waste of real-estate for any journal or paper. If you are writing a Science paper, you get 5 figures, total. You have to do as much with them as you can. There are plenty of times when we might only adjust in 1/2 of a dimension, but usual its the whole

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Thanks for admitting that you make useless charts on which the reader has to read the figures anyway. Hopefully there comes a time when you realize you should've just used tables instead.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    admitting that you make useless charts

    I mean, if the referees with literally decades of experience doing science communication have a problem with them, I'll change them. I have never had to because I have a basic understanding of what makes a good figure.

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