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Hey folks! I hope you're all doing well, what with the major global crisis and everything.

Please find enclosed a patreon-exclusive video about Graphs - what they are, how they work, how I use them, and how I've changed using them.

Since the recent outbreak means I can't make a trip I'd planned to the USA to interview people for RWBY, I decided to take a lot of extra time getting this video just right. And frankly, it's my favourite video I've ever made. Normally it takes me six months to be able to go back and decide if I like something I made, but I like this one right now. It's almost a shame only patrons can see it, but the secrets contained within must remain hidden. You'll see what I mean when you’ve watched it.

For the RWBY video, as I mentioned, I had a 'research trip' of sorts planned, but now entry into the states from the UK is banned or something (I think maybe it's still possible to get in but not advisable). Obviously, if I'm going to be seriously investigating the problems with the company that made it, there's a lot of due diligence I want to be doing. These are people's lives and I'm not interested in doing a hit piece. So, I can't do the sort of work I want to be doing, at least for a little while. However a huge part of the video, namely a critical analysis of the show itself, is still very doable. My current plan is to make that part as one video, release it, move on to other doable projects, then return to the deeper problems with the company in a future video, when it makes logistical sense to do the travel.

Thanks for sticking around during this tumultuous time. Thankfully (and by that, I mean ‘sadly’) my lifestyle is roughly similar to living in quarantine so I'm doing relatively OK. Stay indoors if you can! Also, moisturize. This won’t help with the infection, but it’s good for your skin.

- Hbomb

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Comments

Anonymous

I really liked the brisk pacing of this one! It seems like you had a lot of fun with it.

Anonymous

Very insightful and fun video, thank you!

Anonymous

From having worked in a kitchen I can confirm that soap and hand sanitizer absolutely will destroy your skin if you don't moisturize, so please do! 👏⁠💦

Anonymous

Anakin got more love in this 12-minute video than in his entire diegetic life.

Anonymous

As a motion designer, this was super entertaining to watch. Create Nulls from Path is great! (@ 8:43 - I wish expressions worked that way) I'm excited to see the newfangled graph animations in your future videos!

Anonymous

In fact without hand sanitizer, your skin is considerably more likely to dry and crack, exposing open wounds which provide direct access to viral infection. Your skin is a critical part of your immune system! So hbomb is wrong, moisturizing DOES help with infection CHECKMATE ATHEISTS

Anonymous

thank goodness for more content I can only watch your Dark Souls 2 video 100 times before my brain melts and I'm quickly coming up on #98

Anonymous

Adobe Illustrator also has tools for creating accurate graphs, which you can then bring into After Effects for animation

Anonymous

The table bit at the beginning was proper funny

Anonymous

Incredible video, hope you're keeping yourself safe Hbomb, this virus isn't nice. I am self isolating in Italy at the moment and it's pretty lonely. Your video made my day.

Anonymous

Had a good chuckle t the cake jokeshttps://www.ted.com/talks/david_mccandless_the_beauty_of_data_visualization?language=en Highly recommend this talk on aesthetic data visualisation

Anonymous

Too much cultural marxism made by a beh-tah.

Dave

The puns were amazing XD

Anonymous

My high school Psych class had a segment on how to mislead with statistics and data that changed my whole brain forever and I have flashbacks to my teacher debunking popular nonsense every time I see a bad faith youtuber use vague graphery. Awesome stuff, so glad to see you around again!

Anonymous

Cool! I bet you've already read this, but on the off chance you haven't, "How to Lie With Statistics" by Darrell Huff is an old (1954!) but short and very easy to digest look at ways stats and graphs can be misrepresented. Or I guess for anyone else who's interested in this topic.

Anonymous

Was the cake tasty?

Anonymous

I actually had to pause the video just to double check, but you have the same demon table that I spent most of last night constructing. They truly are terrible to move. In any case, it's always fantastic to see the growth of creators and that's what I've always liked with you if how willing you are to go back to your previous work and say that you could have done better. Stay safe, and may Soybek be with you.

Anonymous

Look at this graph!!!

Anonymous

Honestly the visual gag with you jumping from behind the table caught me so off guard that that was all i could think about for the rest of the video

Anonymous

getting over the plague here and yeah don't get it. it sucks. stay safe, stay clean, don't die. <3

Anonymous

I have two book recommendations for you: (1) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte; and (2) Show Me the Numbers: Designing Tables and Graphs to Enlighten by Stephen Few. These books will help frame your future video because they lay out important do and don'ts for creating data visualizations, which are framed around revealing rather than obscuring data. Also, they will help you think about ways to improve your data visualizations in future videos.

Anonymous

"manipulating" data implies we're tricking the data in some way. I prefer the term "molesting" data, because no self-respecting datum would ever try to say what Prager-U wants it to say.

Anonymous

Oh god I love this

Anonymous

Oh boy! What a wonderful belated H̶̰̻͙̖̩̔̽̀͝o̷̢͈̝͑̈̍̌liḍ̸̛͆̇͂͊̑͠à̴̧̞͇̯̼̠̲̠̗̦͉̪̲̆͗̃̿́̍͘͝ͅy̴̡̢̯͇̦̼̝̼̓͂̓̓̄̓͝ video!

Anonymous

Super glad I finally got off my ass and started supporting the channel. This was outstanding.

Anonymous

Reasonable bear alert

Anonymous

Looking forward to the mentioned video! I think it's a very important topic, can't wait to use your future video as a source for my future workshop on the political use of graphs and data.

Anonymous

Great video!! Also loved the flat earth shirt. Was it part of your homeless tweaker's shelter collection or did you buy it somewhere?

Anonymous

As a recovering video editor I feel seen.

Anonymous

Another interesting way that Bar Graphs can distort data is with relative increases. Minute physics brought this up with the example of two bar graphs, one showing a rise between 201 and 202 (obviously seems very small), and one showing a rise between 1 and 2 (an apparent doubling). Even though the ACTUAL data change is exactly the same the visual difference is amazing!

Anonymous

As someone who constantly bugs his friends about how context matters so much more when looking at visual data, it kills me that I couldn’t share this immediately after I finished watching it... I’ll just sit here twitching until I can then, top notch job HBomb! Especially with your wrangling of After Effects and Premier!

Anonymous

First time, long time - I love this video :D I have a statistician housemate I wish I could show this to, but I'm currently in quarantine with Mighty No 19 - Solidarity <3

Anonymous

As a statistics person, this makes me happy.

Anonymous

loved the video

Anonymous

Have you read the book How to Lie with Maps? Cause this is like the graphs version of that book and I really like it.

Anonymous

I always imagined that you had a far nicer table in your kitchen.

Anonymous

Wait, we've got a RWBY video coming ?

Anonymous

"this made zero practical difference, but made me feel smart!" - any time I use JSON

Anonymous

Fantastic work. I also want to shout out the time you take to explain facets of your craft. I don't always understand 100 percent of it, but even what I don't understand helps me be appreciative of the care you put into your work. Was this a fun detox in between bigger projects? It would be cool if these happened every-so-often, but not at the expense of the care you bring to your Measured Response/This is Why stuff.

Anonymous

you doing alright, harry?

Anonymous

I'm liking the fast pace for these shorter videos. Did UpIsNotJump drop any tips, or were you just spending the day watching his videos?

Anonymous

I didn't know what RWBY was so I googled it and the second sentence of the first review started, "Normally I'd feel weird watching something with female characters as protagonists..." So I know we're in for a treat. I have VRV so I feel like maybe I should watch it so I know what I'm getting into...? Is it good? I haven't watched an anime since... Yu Yu Hakusho,,, Rurouni Kenshin? No, that can't be right. Dragonball? Wait, Dragonball Z! What? They made more Dragonballs... Am... Am I old now? Anyway, I really just wanted to come down here to say that as an engineer that writes reports using graphs all day, literally all I do is "screenshot" the graph from whatever white paper I'm referencing and paste in my report. It's much easier than... whatever "adobe" is.

Anonymous

oh no, the milk graph bowl

Jake Zydek

We call them "figures" over here in USA

Anonymous

Pls say piss more in your videos thnx

Anonymous

Hi Hbomb, cool video! If you're looking to make making graphs easier on yourself, consider looking into using the programming language R and ggplot. There's pretty great resources for making and animating graphs. This book is a good introduction https://socviz.co/ and you can use gganimate to get animated graphs https://www.r-graph-gallery.com/animation.html Just something to consider. Sounds like getting nice looking graphs in after effects is a bit of a pain and this might be easier.

Anonymous

Wonderful video, loved it start to finish. We've got your back!

Anonymous

that was really good!! also i feel special now. disconcerting

Anonymous

I thought that reasonable-ist bear was gone forever why did you bring him back?

Anonymous

more graph/data visualization tutorials it was actually informative, thanks

Anonymous

Fantastic video and that AE tip is gonna save my life!

Ian Priest

fuck yeah! graphs!

Anonymous

New Vegas mod where the courier has to complete a graph-cereal-eating minigame to allocate SPECIAL points

Carlfish

Reminds me of a quote I saw the other day: "Numbers aren’t facts. They’re the result of a lot of subjective choices that have to be documented transparently and in detail before you can even begin to consider treating the output as fact. How data is gathered — and whether it is gathered the same way each time — matters." (https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-its-so-freaking-hard-to-make-a-good-covid-19-model)

Anonymous

Looks like I became a patron at the perfect time.

Anonymous

This was an awesome video!

Anonymous

I get it. It's unlisted because the bit where you import Json into AfterEffects is hardcore adult content that'd get your channel blacklisted.

Anonymous

Can't wait for the rwby video :D

Anonymous

Tbh, I'm pretty much done with the show. I basically follow some fan art stuff and that's about it.

Anonymous

Also, In before everybody from RT you were gonna talk to dies of COVID19.

LeondeBowa

Hi Hbomb, Nice video, Little disapointed to hear you're moving away from the raw graphs and data from research, but I do understand why you're doing it, I honestly just liked it because it felt more authetic and less manipulated, but I realise that it's just a batter of estetics as you'll still be using referenced matterial that we can read ourselves.

alexis

I have two thoughts about this that are winning out over the rest right now: 1) I think the raw graphs and tables were interesting because it not only lent authenticity to what you were saying, but also because there was a low key level of "hey, btw, this is how to read and understand tables" which had value imo 2) I really want that planet shirt, where did you get it?

Hbomb

1) That's a really good point. I think I'm going to try to keep that up as well, so people still know how to go looking for data and read papers and studies, but produce my own visuals when something really matters or it lends an air of professionalism 2) Someone sent it to my PO Box! I have no idea!

Anonymous

Hey dude. I really appreciate your work.

Anonymous

I became a patron specifically to watch this video, and it was totally worth it. I'm a grad student currently studying education policy analysis, and this video sounds like what my brain does when I have been drowning in data analysis for too long—there are lots of images, things move quickly, GRAPHS, I eat cake with my hands,

Duck

I paid money just to see this video and it was a very good cake thank you

Anonymous

i may have backed you mostly for this and to be a part of you having to defend the prequels. thank you for these opportunities. i am very thankful

Anonymous

https://www.livescience.com/45083-misleading-gun-death-chart.html I'm surprised this one didn't come up, though it's not exactly a complicated way of misrepresenting the data. New patron, thanks for the videos my dude! I'm in quarantine alone in Sydney and it's great to have new videos. Good luck with star wars

Anonymous

As someone working in Business Intelligence (Corporate Graphs), this makes me very happy.

Aaron M

I love graphs. Visualizations, and maps which show data like a graph (incidentally I went to school for this last bit so I am bias). So this video is a sold 10/14 or a perfect 5 out of 7 (a 7 out of 7 would be like a -2, don't ask) from me. The bit about JSON files was particularly interesting to me because now I want to know what the fuck a JSON file is, how I use it, and how I could personally replicate this effect because of my nonsensical love of data visualization. As another aside, there are a lot of books written on that subject and you managed to capture the essence of it in a relatively short video with a great table gag.

gardenofdelete

i love this video and how it's probably the most rapid-fire thing you've made! I'd love to see more of this contrast between the more methodical [x] is [onion] n here's why, this, and the slower reaction stuff!!!

Pavel A

This video should be public!

Anonymous

i fucking cackled till my sides hurt at the cake gag

Anonymous

As a scientist who's job is to find interesting ways to visualise their data using graphs (in R), I highly appreciated this video <3 .

Draexian

liek

Anonymous

If you're wondering who keeps coming back and watching this video like once a week, hbomb, it's me. I am the one who is doing it. This is possibly my favorite video of yours, because of how much I love visual representations of data.

Anonymous

At the end of your updated War on Christmas video, you half-joked about how this video is probably the best video you've ever made. And honestly, I have to agree. This video is excellent. I'm also super excited for your implied authority of data/revealing your trick of the graph in the war on Christmas video.

Anonymous

I was so curious about this video after you hinted about it in the War on Christmas Response video that I became a patron just to see it, and I'm not disappointed! You're right, it's some great work, and I'm excited to see more videos like this!

Anonymous

I'm late to this video, but I hope that the choice of not ZERO-INDEXING YOUR GRAPH was intentional, and something you will talk about in your future video about graphs. Otherwise, you are dead to me 😬

Anonymous

This video, especially the part where you jump up and level a revolver at the screen before summarily executing me, made me spit out my tasty beverage. This occurred more often for me over the course of viewing this video than it usually does. I made this graph to prove it too! Just kidding. I'm exceedingly lazy. Besides, it's the thought that counts. Well done. xD

Anonymous

May be you need to use something like Python notebooks for visualization, then capture the screen and somehow mix it with your videos. Plugging JSON data to video editing software is clearly using an instrument that barely suits the task. IMHO.

Stephen Gillie

Neander-told-ya-so! (been dying to use that joke literally anywhere)

Rachael Steiger

The implied authority of data video. Also known as "A Meausred Response to 'When am I gonna use this in real life?'"

Anonymous (edited)

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2023-08-25 08:20:30 I don't usually go through Patreon. Like, I throw money at people who deserve it and I just sleep better or something. Your videos however have become some of the few types of content I actually seek out and consume, absolutely ignoring my 5k+ mailbox of unread Patreon posts. Thank you for taking the time to make something visually appealing while also being so absolutely entertaining. Please keep making videos, and feel free to take your time to do so. I just felt I had to say this, and to thank you. Hope the cake was delicious <3
2022-08-07 00:39:32 I don't usually go through Patreon. Like, I throw money at people who deserve it and I just sleep better or something. Your videos however have become some of the few types of content I actually seek out and consume, absolutely ignoring my 5k+ mailbox of unread Patreon posts. Thank you for taking the time to make something visually appealing while also being so absolutely entertaining. Please keep making videos, and feel free to take your time to do so. I just felt I had to say this, and to thank you. Hope the cake was delicious <3

I don't usually go through Patreon. Like, I throw money at people who deserve it and I just sleep better or something. Your videos however have become some of the few types of content I actually seek out and consume, absolutely ignoring my 5k+ mailbox of unread Patreon posts. Thank you for taking the time to make something visually appealing while also being so absolutely entertaining. Please keep making videos, and feel free to take your time to do so. I just felt I had to say this, and to thank you. Hope the cake was delicious <3