[HN Gopher] Designing the avocado of uncertainty visualization
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       Designing the avocado of uncertainty visualization
        
       Author : skadamat
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2024-06-12 17:58 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | verticalscaler wrote:
       | Alright, well that was disappointing. No whimsical fruit to be
       | found anywhere on that page. My imagination went wild for a
       | moment.
       | 
       | I don't know what exactly I was expecting but I'm pretty broken
       | up about it. :/
        
       | Tao3300 wrote:
       | In ancient times, they would have called that a _shmoo of
       | uncertainty_ , while avocado was the color your telephone and
       | refrigerator happened to be.
        
         | ricksunny wrote:
         | That was the color of our countertops (formica) and oven door
         | as well.
        
       | pimlottc wrote:
       | I get that unexpected and quirky titles drive clicks, but please,
       | authors, give at lease some basic explanation in the beginning of
       | your article. I shouldn't have to scroll almost halfway down the
       | page to find out what "avocado of uncertainty" means.
        
       | sublinear wrote:
       | Article says this...
       | 
       | > Forcing a user to relearn a system that may not be broken is
       | poor design, so we wanted to maintain as much of these design
       | characteristics as possible.
       | 
       | ...which seems to conflict with this statement later in the
       | article.
       | 
       | > As CrisisReady explained to us, people expect to see the cone
       | of uncertainty in hurricane visualizations, though the avocado of
       | uncertainty should remain the focus.
        
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