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Datasaurus Dozen Data

Source: R/datasaurus_dozen.R
datasaurus_dozen.Rd

A dataset containing 12 datasets that are equal in mean, variance, and Pearson's correlation but very different when visualized.

Usage

datasaurus_dozen

Format

A data frame with 1846 rows and 3 variables:

  • dataset: the dataset the values come from

  • x: the x-variable

  • y: the y-variable

References

Davies R, Locke S, D'Agostino McGowan L (2022). datasauRus: Datasets from the Datasaurus Dozen. R package version 0.1.6, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=datasauRus.

Matejka, J., & Fitzmaurice, G. (2017). Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing. CHI 2017 Conference proceedings: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Retrieved from https://www.autodesk.com/research/publications/same-stats-different-graphs