Archive for February, 2015
How to Make Truly Terrible Graphs: A Tutorial by David Streiner Part 4: Where’s the Y? In previous blogs, I described how to make terrible graphs using some of the features of leading graphing packages, such as pie charts and 3-D graphs. But, this is unfair to users of other programs that do not […]
Birth of the Blog
This blog, like the book Lab Math from which it springs (incompletely formed), will be about numbers. I will endeavor to:
1. showcase the basic and the practical, not the challenging or even the advanced;
2.. provide straightforward guidance for the unenthusiastic (“just do it exactly this way”);
3.. provide refreshers for those needing refreshment (whether they know it or not.)
