• jeffhykin@lemm.ee
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    The best part of this is the subtle implication that you can tell a million completely different stories with the same data.

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        And invent the special pieces you need to tell the story you want.

        Where the fuck was that baseplate hiding?

        • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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          The baseplate came from the green in the bar graph. As we know all, the base plate is the foundation for any major project. Regardless that the bar graph shows little green compared to everything else. Green is far more important and we should focus all our efforts on the color green.

          In a major coincidence, green is the color of money and I am now moving into a bigger house.

          Edit: The fact that I got upvotes for a poorly written post amazes me.

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    It’s missing the original, before being reduced to data, being completely different from the “story”.

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          The relationship between statistics and the base facts is the difference between it being a useful tool or the butt of a Mark Twain’s joke.

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        Yeah, like where the hell is all the red? Either there’s a secret chamber under the house, or there is a little bloodbath murder suicide happening in that house

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      I am very new to the world of CS but I appreciate precise vocabulary. Is my understanding below correct?

      • Sorting = Assigning each object to one category (“bin”).

      • Ordering = Like sorting, but the categories themselves have an inherent hierarchy/order (numerical, alphabetical, etc.)

    • LwL@lemmy.world
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      sort, verb: “to put a number of things in an order or to separate them into groups”

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      Radix sort is truly a sorting algorithm though, it just results in an ordering.

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    this is so freaking good, I cannot tell you how often I am told I have all the data and I should be able to make xyz work

    and I am just a recently hired systems administrator that has to deal with my bosses paper notes and the person I replaced lack of documentation