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Chart crime from temporal autocorrelation

April 4, 2026François Chollet

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
François Chollet
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