This graph is so ugly—and you’ll never guess where it appeared

January 23, 2016
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(This article was originally published at Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.)

Raghu Parthasarathy writes:

I know you’re sick of seeing / being pointed to awful figures, but this one is an abomination of a sort I’ve never seen before:

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It’s a pie chart *and* a word cloud. In an actual research paper! Messy, illegible, and generally pointless.

It’s Figure 1 of this paper (in Cell — super high-impact. Sigh…)

I agree. This is one bad graph.

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