Tag: uncertainty
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Don't we all like a good contradiction?
I am a huge fan of Gerd Gigerenzer who preaches numeracy and uncertainty education. One of Prof. Gigerenzer’s pivotal theses is “Fast and Frugal Heuristics” which is also popularized in...
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Data visualization with statistical reasoning: seeing uncertainty with the bootstrap — Dataviz - Stats - Bayes
On Sunday, I wrote about bootstrapping. On Monday, I wrote about visualization uncertainty. Let’s now talk about bootstrapping and uncertainty visualization. Robert Grant is a data visualization expert who wrote...
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Error bars in bar charts. You probably shouldn't
This is another post in the series Because You Can. This time, I will claim that the fact that you can put error bars on a bar chart doesn’t mean...
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Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes – UW Interactive Data Lab – Medium
Uncertainty is one of the most neglected aspects of number-based communication and one of the most important concepts in general numeracy. Comprehending uncertainty is hard. Visualizing it is, apparently, even...
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What's the most important thing about communicating uncertainty?
Sigrid Keydana, in her post Plus/minus what? Let’s talk about uncertainty (talk) — recurrent null, said What’s the most important thing about communicating uncertainty? You’re doing it Really? Here, for...