Can the users of financial statements and annual reports rely upon the charts in them for accuracy? A sample of 50 public companies’ yearly reports collected by the author found that 86% had at least ...

Abstract: This article presents a systematic study of the generalization of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and humans on relational reasoning tasks with bar charts. We first revisit previous ...

Today, we’re diving into a topic that every programmer working with long-running tasks will appreciate: progress bars in Python! Whether you’re processing large datasets or running computationally ...

Nicole White is a member of the Statistical Society of Australia. Whether it’s for a work meeting or a class assignment, presenting data to others is a common task on our to-do list. We use data to ...

I am facing an issue with twinx (dual y-axis). It does very weird behavior. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import seaborn as sns import pandas as pd import numpy as ...

It's been a leap-ahead year for Python—bringing on more speed, less cruft, and a large and growing user base. Credit: Pavel L Photo and Video / Shutterstock Over the course of 2024, Python has proven ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

Bar charts are ubiquitous in the life-science literature, yet a study suggests that they’re often used in ways that can misrepresent research findings. The preprint 1, which was first posted on ...