Notes and Musings – Susan Vanderplas

Creating Effective Graphics

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How do we create effective charts and graphs for scientific presentations? What are the elements of effective charts and graphics? Which charts should be used for different…

Susan Vanderplas

Incorrect statistical reasoning in Guyll et al. leads to biased claims about strength of forensic evidence

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[1] M. Rosenblum, E. T. Chin, E. L. Ogburn, et al. “Incorrect statistical reasoning in Guyll et al. leads to biased claims about strength of forensic evidence”. In: Proceedin…

Michael Rosenblum, Elizabeth T. Chin, Elizabeth L. Ogburn, Akihiko Nishimura, Daniel Westreich, Abhirup Datta, Susan Vanderplas, Maria Cuellar, William C. Thompson

Web Scraping Olympics: Python

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A comparison of Python, Julia, and R for web-scraping Olympic athlete names, events, and birthdays. I represented python. See the full narrative here…

Susan Vanderplas

A Plot is Worth a Thousand Tests: Assessing Residual Diagnostics with the Lineup Protocol

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Regression experts consistently recommend plotting residuals for model diagnosis, despite the availability of many numerical hypothesis test procedures designed to use…

Weihao (Patrick) Li, Di Cook, Emi Tanaka, Klaus Ackermann, Susan Vanderplas

Escaping Flatland: Graphics, Dimensionality, and Human Perception

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Almost 40 years ago, Cleveland & McGill published the first of 3 papers detailing experiments assessing the accuracy of numerical perception using different types of charts.…

Susan Vanderplas

Escaping Flatland: Graphics, Dimensionality, andHuman Perception

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[1] S. Vanderplas, E. Blankenship, and T. Wiederich. “Escaping Flatland: Graphics, Dimensionality, and~Human Perception”. In: Human Interface and the Management of Information…

Susan Vanderplas, Erin Blankenship, Tyler Wiederich

Creating Good Graphics

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Let’s talk about how to create good charts and graphics!

Susan Vanderplas

Hidden Multiple Comparisons Increase Forensic Error Rates

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[1] S. Vanderplas, A. Carriquiry, and H. Hofmann. “Hidden Multiple Comparisons Increase Forensic Error Rates”. In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121.25…

Susan Vanderplas, Alicia Carriquiry, Heike Hofmann

A Plot Is Worth a Thousand Tests: Assessing Residual Diagnostics with the Lineup Protocol

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[1] W. Li, D. Cook, E. Tanaka, et al. “A Plot Is Worth a Thousand Tests: Assessing Residual Diagnostics with the Lineup Protocol”. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical…

Weihao Li, Dianne Cook, Emi Tanaka, Susan VanderPlas

Demonstrative Evidence and the Use of Algorithms in Jury Trials

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[1] R. Rogers and S. VanderPlas. “Demonstrative Evidence and the Use of Algorithms in Jury Trials”. In: Journal of Data Science 22.2 (May. 02, 2024), pp. 314-332. DOI: 10.633…

Rachel Rogers, Susan VanderPlas

Evaluating Perceptual Judgements on 3D Printed Bar Charts

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[1] T. Wiederich and S. Vanderplas. “Evaluating Perceptual Judgements on 3D Printed Bar Charts”. In: Journal of Data Science 22.2 (Apr. 24, 2024), pp. 176-190. ISSN…

Tyler Wiederich, Susan Vanderplas

Graphical Perception in a Pandemic: Log Scales, Exponential Growth, and the Importance of User Testing

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During COVID, people all over the world were consulting time-series charts on a daily basis and using these charts to make decisions. Discussions broke out among data…

Susan Vanderplas, Emily Robinson, Reka Howard

Building a CV/Blog Automatically

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This week will be the second of a 2-part workshop. On Feb 15, we talked about how to make a CV with R and a google spreadsheet (and why you might want to do so). This week…

Susan Vanderplas

Building a CV with R and Google Sheets

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This week will be the first of a 2-part workshop. First, we’ll talk about how to make a CV with R and a google spreadsheet (and why you might want to do so). On March 7…

Susan Vanderplas

Statistical Computing Using R and Python

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[1] S. Vanderplas. Statistical Computing Using R and Python. Feb. 14, 2024. URL: https://srvanderplas.github.io/stat-computing-r-python/.

Susan Vanderplas

Using Git Submodules

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Sometimes, we want to have git repositories that are nested within each other, but git doesn’t allow us to do that. Instead, there are git submodules! I’ll talk about how…

Susan Vanderplas

One Model That Fits Them All: Psychometrics With Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Models

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[1] W. Ju, S. R. VanderPlas, and H. Hofmann. “One Model That Fits Them All: Psychometrics With Generalized Linear Mixed Effects Models”. In: Electronic Imaging 36 (Jan. 24…

Wangqian Ju, Susan R. VanderPlas, Heike Hofmann

Cultivating Insights: Harnessing the Power of Data Visualization in Agriculture

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Data visualization is an important tool for examining the results of on-farm experiments before, during, and after formal modeling. This talk shows the different types of…

Susan Vanderplas

Misuse of statistical method results in highly biased interpretation of forensic evidence in Guyll et al. 2023

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[1] M. Rosenblum, E. T. Chin, E. L. Ogburn, et al. “Misuse of statistical method results in highly biased interpretation of forensic evidence in Guyll et al. (2023)”. In: Law…

Michael Rosenblum, Elizabeth T Chin, Elizabeth L Ogburn, Akihiko Nishimura, Daniel Westreich, Abhirup Datta, Susan Vanderplas, Maria Cuellar, William C Thompson

Multimodal User Testing: Producing comprehensive, task-focused guidelines for chart design

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, Australian Statistical Conference
Event Type: Conference
Location: Wollongong, NSW, AUS

Susan Vanderplas, Reka Howard, Emily Robinson

How Do You Define a Circle? Perception and Computer Vision Diagnostics

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Neural Networks are very complicated and very useful models for image recognition, but they are generally used to recognize very complex and multifaceted stimuli, like cars…

Susan Vanderplas, Muxin Hua

Measuring Your Tools, for Science!

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This project is a bit of informal data collection meant to help me calibrate the likelihood of a random tool matching a wire in evidence of a given gauge/diameter.

Susan Vanderplas

Graphics and Cognition: How Do We Perceive Charts?

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In this talk, I walk through a few cognitive components that affect how we use charts: perception, attention, and memory, with a focus on the process of understanding and…

Susan Vanderplas

Eye Fitting Straight Lines in the Modern Era

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[1] E. A. Robinson, R. Howard, and S. VanderPlas. “Eye Fitting Straight Lines in the Modern Era”. In: Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 32.4 (Oct. 02, 2023)…

Emily A. Robinson, Reka Howard, Susan VanderPlas

Testing Statistical Graphics

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Section on Statistical Graphics, JSM
Event Type: Conference
Location: Toronto, ON, CA

Susan Vanderplas