Humans are notorious at seeing patterns in plots even when there are none, especially when there is some incentive (e.g. financial) to do so. To avoid these pitfalls, the lineup protocol (Buja et. al 2009) calls for generating a number of simulated (“null”) plots and asking a user to try to pick out the real data from the rest. We created an R-shiny App that allows the user to generate these lineups by using preloaded examples or by uploading their own data.
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