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Where can I find a collection of bad/misleading data visualizations?
Are you interested in resources in languages other than English? Bad data visualization has no nationality.
There's a blog SmarterPoland.pl (in Polish) devoted to good and bad data visualization. It ...
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Where can I find a collection of bad/misleading data visualizations?
Check out the book Spurious Correlations by Tyler Vigen.
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Real-world applications of taxicab metric
A variation on Matthew's bakeries:
The taxicab Voronoi diagram shows which firestation can reach a fire fastest
in a city whose roads follow an orthogonal grid.
The dots below are firestations, and ...
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Real-world applications of taxicab metric
I would argue that the taxicab metric as such is actually carrying its weight if it is a "fun exercise for students" that points out that there are real-world applications where the ...
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