QUACKTASTIC posted:It's me. I'm the AU The rest though.
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# ? Dec 4, 2015 18:22 |
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Of course it's perfectly fine You think I want to be a non-standard unit of astronomical measurement? Jeez
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# ? Dec 4, 2015 18:31 |
QUACKTASTIC posted:Of course it's perfectly fine
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# ? Dec 4, 2015 18:55 |
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That right axis Oops new page.
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# ? Dec 4, 2015 18:56 |
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kalstrams posted:Honestly you'd fit place, astronomy is land of units as idiotic as speed of light in feets per nanonsecond (roughly 1, by the way ). That's just silly. Now excuse me while I open this 12-cubic-attoparsec can of Diet Coke.
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# ? Dec 4, 2015 19:01 |
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Haha yeah that's just like some people who measure height in feet or weight in stones! More seriously, I love dumb units and the astronomical unit is pretty great in its arbitrariness.
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# ? Dec 4, 2015 19:09 |
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Fathis Munk posted:More seriously, I love dumb units and the astronomical unit is pretty great in its arbitrariness.
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# ? Dec 4, 2015 19:26 |
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That really is remarkable.
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# ? Dec 4, 2015 19:33 |
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cheerfullydrab posted:Do you now? Nice
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# ? Dec 4, 2015 20:38 |
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 00:29 |
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gotta watch out for that cake
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 04:42 |
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 14:41 |
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Pretty sure this is in a text book teaching kids how to interpret piss poor graphs that were made incorrectly, which is a really really good skill to teach.
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 19:02 |
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I don't see what's wrong with this graph
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 19:07 |
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Slovenia and Slovakia are both proportionally terrible at reading. Personally I blame confusion over which country they're in. How're you supposed to read if it's impossible to differentiate the name of your country from another one?
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 20:38 |
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Albino Squirrel posted:Slovenia and Slovakia are both proportionally terrible at reading. Personally I blame confusion over which country they're in. How're you supposed to read if it's impossible to differentiate the name of your country from another one?
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# ? Dec 5, 2015 21:12 |
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This graph would probably be just fine if they swapped Reading with one of the other columns, since most of the countries have Reading either higher or lower than Science and Math.
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 06:16 |
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dpbjinc posted:This graph would probably be just fine if they swapped Reading with one of the other columns, since most of the countries have Reading either higher or lower than Science and Math. I'm guessing the point is to have the UK scores in ascending order, since it's black, bold and in the title. Maybe if it was more spread out, with fewer countries? The graph is an amazing combination of making perfect sense and being totally impenetrable.
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 06:21 |
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How drugs are you on a scale of 5 to scale
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 11:24 |
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grate deceiver posted:How drugs are you on a scale of 5 to scale I'm circled triangle How do people even come up with this? Are they using a program that lets them easily combine different metrics and visualization techniques into single images? This is the visual data equivalent of amateur jazz improv.
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 11:41 |
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twoday posted:I'm circled triangle This is a pretty simple network visualization that only shows connections to one node (and doesn't show the edges, obviously). The size of the other nodes implies some information about the rest of the network. It's not that bad but the excessive labeling and description makes it seem far worse.
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 12:00 |
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 15:02 |
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a superfluous representation that is also wrong. Nice.
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 15:34 |
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jesus what is that, kill it with fire
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# ? Dec 7, 2015 15:52 |
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grate deceiver posted:jesus what is that, kill it with fire That's a cruel reaction to someone suffering edema.
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 15:43 |
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 17:10 |
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Ughhhh Technically showing true facts but drat that one bothers me.
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 17:31 |
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Yeah Fahrenheit are a shameful unit, E: It's great because I have no clue if this is supposed to prove or disprove climate change.
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 17:31 |
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Fathis Munk posted:Yeah Fahrenheit are a shameful unit, If it's from Nation Review, it's probably supposed to show that racial segregation is a good idea.
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 17:43 |
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Oh so it's that kind of site? I guess they blew up the scale to try and prove the point that temperatures did not change drastically in that case? Which would be more on the dishonest than the disingenuous side then.
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 17:58 |
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Why doesn't the chart go up to 212F? Why are they trying to suppress a huge swath of the temperature scale at which water is still a liquid?
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 18:16 |
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People posted loads of parody graphs in the replies.
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 18:54 |
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Calculus Man posted:People posted loads of parody graphs in the replies. I particularly like the one that graphed global population with a Y-axis from 0 to 5 trillion and the "William F. Buckley's Body Temperature" one.
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 22:12 |
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The temperature has gone up by like 3 degrees (scale is too small to see properly, but something like that anyway). That's quite a lot. Good graph.
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 22:41 |
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Fathis Munk posted:Yeah Fahrenheit are a shameful unit, From one of the twitter comments: "there are two types of countries, ones that use metric, and ones that have been to the moon."
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# ? Dec 16, 2015 22:51 |
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StandardVC10 posted:I particularly like the one that graphed global population with a Y-axis from 0 to 5 trillion and the "William F. Buckley's Body Temperature" one. The best one is where someone posts a graph of the increase in CO2 concentration over time, and someone else just rotates it so the line is going down and claims the CO2 levels are now in sharp decline
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# ? Dec 17, 2015 07:22 |
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And the person who posted the original graph was not appreciative of the joke.
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# ? Dec 17, 2015 07:43 |
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Judge Schnoopy posted:From one of the twitter comments: Liberia's been to the moon?!?
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# ? Dec 17, 2015 08:35 |
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Judge Schnoopy posted:From one of the twitter comments: Tell that to the poor Mars Probe that fell victim to the evil of clinging to an old unit system. quote:However, on September 23, 1999, communication with the spacecraft was lost as the spacecraft went into orbital insertion, due to ground-based computer software which produced output in non-SIunits of pound-seconds (lbf s) instead of the metric units of newton-seconds (N s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. The spacecraft encountered Mars on a trajectory that brought it too close to the planet, causing it to pass through the upper atmosphere and disintegrate. I just never understood why people are so adamant about keeping feet and inches with all their weird idiosyncrasies instead of transitioning to metres like almost all of the rest of the world. Hell even England is transitioning.
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# ? Dec 17, 2015 12:20 |
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Americans are lazy.
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# ? Dec 17, 2015 12:25 |