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by jamessb 571 days ago
The usual example used in teaching is Ansombe's Quartet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet

It consists of 4 datasets with the same summary statistics, but when plotted look very different. It's much easier to see the patterns in the plots than in the data table.

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Thanks for that reference.