Site is calling BS on crappy data visualization and other annoyances

English does not have separate verbs for “to read” and “to read through” so it’s confusing. However, there’s no evidence anyone read these books, just that they bought them.

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This. So much. Green and Blue. Yellow and Blue. (Although I know that is problematic for some)

Add some stripes and dots.

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Wow, there’s nothing too low for those fucking scum to stoop to, is there?

It’s high time for the role of the fourth estate to be enshrined in legislation, with some fucking stiff penalties for pretenders.

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From one of my old papers:

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OTOH, I also produced things like this:

…which I’m sure would drive a graphic design person nuts.

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I was taught to always use black and white in academic charts and graphs, because few of the journals are in color.

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In my experience, it was more “the page charges go through the roof if you include colour” (but the journals wanted both colour and B&W images anyway, in case they decide to use one for the cover). The second image I posted is from a conference poster.

Hard to do useful radiography images without colour, though.

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Plus,how do they define “read?” The Bible is very rarely read cover-to-cover, but maybe a billion people read passages from it on a daily basis.

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What happens if you look at a red/green chart through a piece of red film?

I see gray.

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