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Claus O. Wilke
Personal blog · clauswilke.com/blogdatascience
Claus O. Wilke's personal blog at clauswilke.com covers data and science. Since 2013, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Fundamentals of Data Visualization”. The last post was in 2021, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Claus Wilke's blog and data visualization book for its guidance on color use, boxplots and violin plots, and scientific writing. Commenters cite it on dataviz and writing advice.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Professor of Integrative Biology
Most-linked posts?
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-05-27
What Hacker News says?
Related, Claus Wilke's Data Visualization book has a fantastic section on common pitfalls of color use: https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/color-basics.html https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/color-pitfalls.html
Comment linking /dataviz/color-pitfalls.html
on “Which color scale to use when visualizing data”Submitted Telling a Story and Making a Point as a story · 16 points
HN discussionConfidence intervals aren't even that informative. Like using boxplots when you could inform the viewer so much more with sina plots [1]. Why not show me the whole posterior probability distribution (perhaps helpfully marking the 95% highest density region [2])? Or if you don't have a distribution, show me the 95%, 97.5% and 99.5% intervals. [1] https://clauswilke.com/dataviz/boxplots-violins.html [2] https://www.sc…
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on “How to Criticize Computer Scientists (2001)”Submitted Fundamentals of Data Visualization as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAnonymous reviewers does not necessarily mean anonymous reviews . > like bro there isn't a scholar/thinker/activist on this subject anywhere in the world that agrees with you Not a 'bro'; also https://clauswilke.com/blog/2014/10/12/in-defense-of-anonymo... https://doi.org/10.1080/01411920802044438 https://doi.org/10.1038/249601a0 . I pretty much agree exactly with Claus O. Wilke, and haven't read beyond the abstract…
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on “Scientific sleuths spot dishonest ChatGPT use in papers”Submitted Fundamentals of Data Visualization Book as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWhat helped me most is to separate the task of writing content from writing the nicely (copy-editing): https://clauswilke.com/blog/2013/09/22/silence-your-inner-cr... It is also more aligned with how one naturally writes code: Instead of aiming for code or a fumction that perfectly works on the first go, aim for something that roughl, should work and improve it in a later step.
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on “A guide to technical report writing [pdf]”Submitted Color Scales as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHere is some good advise how to write scientific texts: https://clauswilke.com/virtualbooks/
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on “I've procrastinated working on my thesis for more than a year”Submitted Telling a Story and Making a Point as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is consumer software creating a new generation of computer illiterates? as a story · 2 points
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