The Datasaurus: a monstrous Anscombe for the 21st century

Most people trained in the ways of data visualisation will be very familiar with Anscombe's Quartet. For the uninitiated, it's a set of 4 fairly simple looking X-Y scatterplots that look like this. What's so great about those then? Well, the reason data vizzers get excited starts to become clear when you realise that the dotted grey … Continue reading The Datasaurus: a monstrous Anscombe for the 21st century