The Datasaurus Dozen

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Watch Adam Savage announce his first book club!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr0M5a1eTW0

Huge thanks to Justin Matejka for taking the time to chat with me. They do some amazing work. Follow Justin on twitter!
https://twitter.com/JustinMatejka

Read all about Justin's plot and the Datasaurus Dozen here:
https://www.autodeskresearch.com/publications/samestats

Check out the full paper by Justin Matejka and George Fitzmaurice:
Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing
https://www.autodeskresearch.com/sites/default/files/SameStats-DifferentGraphs.pdf

The original Datasaurus plot was thanks to Alberto Cairo.
http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2016/08/download-datasaurus-never-trust-summary.html
http://albertocairo.com/

The greater Toronto area had a population of 5,928,040 and mean age of 39.7 in the 2016 census. Check out all the data for yourself.
https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CMACA&Code1=535&Geo2=PR&Code2=35&Data=Count&SearchText=toronto&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&TABID=1

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Filming by Matt Parker
Editing by Alex Genn-Bash
Music by Howard Carter
Design by Simon Wright

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