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MinderbinderMJ / Capstone2-Intro-to-Data-Analysis

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Observation: Styling decisions for plots can make your results look different #4

Closed Caealana closed 6 years ago

Caealana commented 6 years ago

This isn't an issue but more of an interesting tidbit to keep in mind when designing data visualizations. You can manipulate data visualizations to give different impressions. For example, both plots are created using the same data. Manipulating the range of the y-axis in the following two plots makes the differences between the two groups appear more pronounced in the second plot:

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MinderbinderMJ commented 6 years ago

The graphs presented definitely look cleaner. Thanks for the heads up.