Today, our theme is dinosaurs, which made me think about the Datasaurus Dozen! This wild set of datasets is an extension of the famous Anscombe’s Quartet. Despite having completely different-looking distributions when plotted, every single one of the Datasaurus Dozen datasets has the exact same summary statistics. The Datasaurus Dozen is a great reminder for all us data folks to always look beyond summary statistics like the mean and standard deviation to truly understand what’s going on ...
