329: Telling a Story Right with Data
Super Data Science: ML & AI Podcast with Jon Krohn
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Using Bar Charts to Compare GPAs
We're not quadratic squared thinkers. We don't think in square terms. So avoid areas at all costs, predominantly, sometimes use bar charts and the best option is your simple line chart. And I'd add the dot plot as another great chart as well. What you can do is just have the X axis is the name of each student, the Y axis is average GPA,. Then instead of having a bar, you can just have a dot, right, and that's another high performing chart type. And then the lowest on the scale is color. Like a heat map. Heat maps are still useful, but they're more useful for outline detection.
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