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		codezero on Aug 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Visualizations that make no sense I sympathize with the NASA chart. It was clearly created using IDL, which is powerful but also suffers from allowing lazy scientists to use automatic plot parameters.

vonmoltke on Aug 30, 2013 [–]

Even worse is when said lazy scientists plot time series data as a set of images where each image is autoscaled.

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