Why Visualize Data? Anscombe’s quartet and the many lives that could have been saved…
Any intellectual worth their salt can clearly look at a data set and see trends, right? Why would we need to bother ourselves with the “prettying” of data, which provides the cold hard facts we are looking for? What if I told you that the difference between a good data presentation and a poor one, was the difference between someone living or dying? We need to visualize data to see the whole picture. Whether we are looking at temperature data,…