François Chollet calls out plotting timeseries tuples as independent scatter samples, saying it exploits temporal autocorrelation to exaggerate correlation and hide variance.
This is a type of chart crime
plot value tuples from a timeseries on a 2D scatter plot like this as if they were independent samples
leveraging temporal autocorrelation to magnify any existing x/y correlation
hide the actual variance
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