▲ 143 ▼ Trump's approval among rural Americans (feddit.uk) submitted 4 months ago by Wudi@feddit.uk to c/dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz 16 comments fedilink hide all child comments Source
[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (1 child) Rural Americans keeping the curve nice and flat permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago 20% of them switched to not approving. That’s 1/5. But iPod charts are fucking trash. You can’t include confidence intervals on interpolation splines like that. Those don’t look like restricted cubic splines or b splines, and that chart is not a dense lowess chart. They strangle the fuck out of that data to hide that they have like 8 data points. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 months ago 20% of them switched to not approving. That’s 1/5. But iPod charts are fucking trash. You can’t include confidence intervals on interpolation splines like that. Those don’t look like restricted cubic splines or b splines, and that chart is not a dense lowess chart. They strangle the fuck out of that data to hide that they have like 8 data points. permalink fedilink source parent
