A brief review of dot plot jitter methods and a study of one example from a Nature article.

I collected new data to take a closer look at the scented-candle/Covid19 relationship and found a new connection not related to smell.

Four ways to evaluate starting Quordle word triplets using partition counting and simulation.

Fitted lines are useful as first order approximations, but it’s often useful to look a little deeper. In the process of exploring a paper’s time trends, I found an unexpected data processing issue.

Trying to adapt the warming stripes graphic with latitude bands, with a detour to import NetCDF data on an equally-spaced global grid.

Like many programmers, I’ve had fun writing code to explore optimal guessing strategies for the online game Wordle. How many guesses are needed for any starting word?

How reproducible are studies with shared data? I collect one more data point in a quest for the answer, and make a side exploration into a linear regression conundrum.

Five alternatives to a broken axis scale for data visualization’s wide scale problem, and a broken line chart tip.

Any investigation into small R² values leads to a different finding about extrapolation.

A study of gender balance in Star Trek dialog leads to an adventure in data cleaning and a smoothing revelation.