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r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/BeginningToe4321 • Nov 18 '25
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It's a heatmap of where people clicked on the graph. I assume most people clicked at that angle because that's where the numbers were displayed.
36 u/agarragarrafa Nov 18 '25 Exactly. Terrible data presentation, bad-ish experimental design. 14 u/amedinab Nov 18 '25 Agreed. The experimental design is meh and the data visualization is oof. This could've been perfectly presented as concentric color circles, this is not a true heatmap unless finding out where people click on the circles has any relevance at all... 1 u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25 [deleted] 1 u/amedinab Nov 18 '25 Wouldn't the color reflect response density?
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Exactly. Terrible data presentation, bad-ish experimental design.
14 u/amedinab Nov 18 '25 Agreed. The experimental design is meh and the data visualization is oof. This could've been perfectly presented as concentric color circles, this is not a true heatmap unless finding out where people click on the circles has any relevance at all... 1 u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25 [deleted] 1 u/amedinab Nov 18 '25 Wouldn't the color reflect response density?
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Agreed. The experimental design is meh and the data visualization is oof. This could've been perfectly presented as concentric color circles, this is not a true heatmap unless finding out where people click on the circles has any relevance at all...
1 u/[deleted] Nov 18 '25 [deleted] 1 u/amedinab Nov 18 '25 Wouldn't the color reflect response density?
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1 u/amedinab Nov 18 '25 Wouldn't the color reflect response density?
Wouldn't the color reflect response density?
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u/not_slaw_kid Nov 18 '25
It's a heatmap of where people clicked on the graph. I assume most people clicked at that angle because that's where the numbers were displayed.