#data time

Fun fact! 'Funny cross stitch' is the 16ᵗʰ most common tag given to cross-stitch listings on Etsy (right after 'pdf cross stitch' and before 'cute cross stitch'). But how many of those patterns are actually funny? What's the average humor level? And which among them is the funniest? I think it's time we found out!

Click Here* [2024 UPDATE: now here!] to cast your vote on any of 997 different 'funny' cross-stitch patterns, all randomly scraped from Etsy throughout the year, and check back later this month for the results!

Patterns pictured here: [dark sense] [keith haring] [love] [pew pew] [gnomes]

Data Time! That’s his name. My friends accidentally helped me make him at lunch the other day. Look, i even doodled a lil expressions sheet for practice.

His personality is what happens when you fuse Bill Nye and Adam Savage. He’s so fucking smart but all he does all day is see what limits he can push things before they explode. He’s scarily happy all the time, loves making friends, has 15 doctorates in Science™, and his favorite episode of mythbusters is the one where they explode a cement truck. 

Oh yeah, absolutely!

I just finished refurbishing the form to collect a little more specific data-- right now it's set to only show the top 25 patterns, so we can determine which of them is the absolute funniest-- but once that's been running for a little while I'll set it back to the original, full set and leave it open for people to poke around in. :)

Sam judges visualizations part 2

So . . . Let’s chat about effective visualization, and how this is not it.

Featuring me, your friendly neighborhood data scientist.

Jay Inslee’s team is trying really hard here (all misspelling non-withstanding). And it fits the model of public consumption, in that it isn’t hard to understand. It is however, easy to misunderstand.

This is a lesson in using the correct scale for readability.

Now, there are more detailed versions of each of these, so let’s take a look, shall we?