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1. Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Sep-2018 22:12:08 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

   @ckeen this kind of graphs are made to represent the median and the std deviation at the same time. The median is something I added but this is not the standard way to do it.

   • R. Fox :antifa: (ckeen@vernunftzentrum.de)'s status on Friday, 14-Sep-2018 22:15:45 CEST R. Fox :antifa:

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     @ekaitz_zarraga Thanks for your time explaining it, I always wondered about that.
     
     Seen them in Tufte's work as examples. I guess in medicine papers this is more common...
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   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Sep-2018 22:17:01 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • R. Fox :antifa:

     @ckeen
     Don't worry mate, it's a pleasure.

     I don't know what Tufte is... can you tell me more about it?

   • R. Fox :antifa: (ckeen@vernunftzentrum.de)'s status on Friday, 14-Sep-2018 22:18:19 CEST R. Fox :antifa:

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     @ekaitz_zarraga Edward Tufte, famous for his rants on powerpoint slides and author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information a beautiful book about presenting information
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   • Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 (ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Sep-2018 22:20:41 CEST Ekaitz Zárraga 👹

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     • R. Fox :antifa:

     @ckeen I should take a look to that. I think I've heard that name before but I can't recall where...