PL Perspectives

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Archive of posts tagged: communicating quantitative information

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

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

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.