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Box Plots, or Better! 5 Reasons Why Box Plots are the Better Default Choice for Visualizing Performance

by Stefan Marr on Jul 8, 2024 | Tags: academic writing, benchmarks, Measurements, performance, systems

When we start moving our programming language ideas from the world of proofs to the world of practical implementations, we start to encounter many different problems, one of which is performance. While the most important performance improvement is to go from a...

A Plot Twist, Part II: In Praise of Scatter Plots

by John Wickerson on Nov 14, 2019 | Tags: academic writing, communicating quantitative information, graphs, Measurements, statistics

Drawing on numerous examples from papers published in PLDI 2019, I argue that scatter plots can be easier to understand than bar charts.

A Plot Twist: Drawing Better Graphs in PL Papers

by John Wickerson on Nov 12, 2019 | Tags: academic writing, communicating quantitative information, graphs, Measurements, statistics

Drawing on numerous examples from papers published in PLDI 2019, I argue that normalised data should usually be plotted on a logarithmic scale.

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Box Plots, or Better! 5 Reasons Why Box Plots are the Better Default Choice for Visualizing Performance

A Plot Twist, Part II: In Praise of Scatter Plots

A Plot Twist: Drawing Better Graphs in PL Papers

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