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Constructive criticism of the graphics of climate science. July 12, 2016. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. A really nice example of the use of colour in a map here. The image is from a new paper on the relationships between cold weather, influenza and mortality in Nature Climate Change (ht Ed Hawkins). The authors have chosen a simple monochrome palette, and the map is clear from any distracting clutter. I guess […]. October 1, 2015. Middot; by Doug McNeall.
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Constructive criticism of the graphics of climate science. Making Better Figures [Video]. March 30, 2015. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in accessibility. Middot; Leave a comment. Better Figures made a video! February 19, 2013. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in Animation. Middot; 1 Comment. September 21, 2012. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in Animation. Middot; 2 Comments. A playful look at a serious subject from Mike Bostock. He uses a small multiple, animated over each year, to show the impa...
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Constructive criticism of the graphics of climate science. This blog is all about. Critical comments are really, really welcome, but they. Absolutely must not call into question the graph maker’s motives. Pointing out the missing but crucial context is fine. Pointing out that there are other ways of doing things is fine. Accusing a graph maker of intending to deceive is. Please) keep the comments on topic. I’ll most likely just ignore anything off topic. Decadal Temperatures « Better Figures.
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Making Better Figures [Video] | Better Figures
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Constructive criticism of the graphics of climate science. Making Better Figures [Video]. March 30, 2015. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in accessibility. Middot; Leave a comment. Better Figures made a video! The video offers some tips for making better figures. A brief history of statistical graphics [02:20]. Everybody loves a bad figure [08:10]. Making better timeseries (applying those principles) [13:13]. We need to talk about “Rainbow” [23:30]. Design, and design again [31:06]. All Models Are Wrong.
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Constructive criticism of the graphics of climate science. A welcome development for matplotlib. July 10, 2015. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in accessibility. Middot; 2 Comments. Making Better Figures [Video]. March 30, 2015. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in accessibility. Middot; Leave a comment. Better Figures made a video! February 19, 2013. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in Animation. Middot; 1 Comment. Every so often, a graphic comes along that does something so nicely, that it would seem c...
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Constructive criticism of the graphics of climate science. Author Archives: Doug McNeall. July 12, 2016. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in Uncategorized. Middot; Leave a comment. February 12, 2016. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in Colour. Middot; Leave a comment. Legislating for better information design. October 6, 2015. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in accessibility. Middot; Leave a comment. It turns out that my infant son has a milk allergy (not intolerance). He’ll probably grow out ...That...
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G-FEED: Daily weather data: original vs knock-off
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Global Food, Environment and Economic Dynamics. Saturday, April 12, 2014. Daily weather data: original vs knock-off. At the time Michael Roberts and I wrote our article on nonlinear temperature effects in agriculture. The PRISM climate group. Cross-validation suggested we weren't that far off, but then again, we only could do cross-validation tests in areas that have weather stations. Recently, the PRISM. Below is a table that summarizes PRISM's daily data for the growing season (April-September) in all ...
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Constructive criticism of the graphics of climate science. Better Figures does RMetS at the ECMWF. October 2, 2015. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in accessibility. Middot; Leave a comment. A welcome development for matplotlib. July 10, 2015. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in accessibility. Middot; 2 Comments. Picking a colour scale for scientific graphics. June 23, 2015. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in accessibility. Middot; 5 Comments. Here are some recommendations for making scientific graphic...
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How to strip meaning from graphs | Better Figures
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Constructive criticism of the graphics of climate science. How to strip meaning from graphs. March 11, 2013. Middot; by Doug McNeall. Middot; in baseline. Middot; 15 Comments. A fantastic example of how to strip meaning from a graph this week, in this little beauty from Christopher Booker in the Telegraph. 8220;Look at the graph” he says “to see the evidence of global warming”. Just look at it. Pretty unimpressive, eh? Wonder how Mr Booker missed the opportunity to plot it against absolute zero. So, noth...
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