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The Datasaurus dozen comprises thirteen data sets that have nearly identical simple descriptive statistics to two decimal places, yet have very different distributions and appear very different when graphed.[1] It was inspired by the smaller Anscombe's quartet that was created in 1973.
- ^ Matejka, Justin; Fitzmaurice, George (2017-05-02). "Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing" (PDF). Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. CHI '17. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 1290–1294. doi:10.1145/3025453.3025912. ISBN 978-1-4503-4655-9. Archived from the original on 2017-05-02.