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• jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The best part of this is the subtle implication that you can tell a million completely different stories with the same data.

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  • Xariphon@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Having spent an unfortunate amount of time debunking bullshit statistics... yes.

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  • NounsAndWords@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You just need to pick the pieces you want and discard/ignore the ones you don’t!

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    • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And invent the special pieces you need to tell the story you want.

      Where the fuck was that baseplate hiding?

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• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s missing the original, before being reduced to data, being completely different from the “story”.

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  • bob_lemon@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not to mention that the story quite obviously does not fit the data at all.

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    • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well that’s just statistics.

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• loudmicro@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where is all that yellow?

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  • Test_Tickles@lemmynsfw.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the lawnmower, the lights on the house, the flowers on the bushes, and in the giant lake of piss behind the house.

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  • Oisteink@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’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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• FlaminGoku@reddthat.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This was a poor analysis of the data.

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• UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Presented visually > Story

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hate when computer scientists use “sorting” for “ordering”. It’s been mistranslated into other languages, too.

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  • stelelor@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am very new to the world of CS but I appreciate precise vocabulary. Is my understanding below correct?

    • Sorting = Assigning each object to one category (“bin”).

    • Ordering = Like sorting, but the categories themselves have an inherent hierarchy/order (numerical, alphabetical, etc.)

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes but people say “sorting algorithms” when describibg programs that put elements of a list in the correct order.

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  • LwL@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sort, verb: “to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups”

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  • Wilzax@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Radix sort is truly a sorting algorithm though, it just results in an ordering.

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• thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  this 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

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where are all the yellow blocks in the final product? Why is nobody asking this?

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  • paholg@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The yellow blocks didn’t fit the desired story, so were disregarded as outliers.

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  • mriormro@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s an inside…

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  • ElBarto@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where did the grass plates come from?

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• humorlessrepost@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And then when the house is disassembled into pieces again, its houseness lives on forever in heaven.

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