C# in Excel can't even properly pull values from a table correctly. No way I'm going to waste 2-3 trying to make it concatenate non-alphanumeric characters into cells.
At work, there isn't anyone I have to send tables to that is colorblind. And if that changes, they can make a request. Until then, I'm sticking with red/green
A friend once received an email riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors from her boss that critiqued her (appropriate) use of exclamation points. Specifically, that appearing cheerful was not professional.
Not using colors in scientific writing is discarding a valuable information channel and therefore inefficient. When you are already limited in the allowed word count, this can speed up conveying information and reduce cognitive strain on readers (and possibly yourself). So it's a win-win.
This should not end in chaos though, where colours are more confusing than helpful.
The times when we had to print out each and every single page on a crappy black/white office printer are luckily becoming more and more a thing of the past. So even this is no longer a good reason to not use colours.
Be sure to be careful and thoughtful in your color palette though because if colors are important to the understanding of information then it should be accessible.
I've only ever been academia adjacent and I'm glad. Some of the most soulless people I've ever met. It's the lab grunts who know how to party. Until they have the life sucked out of them to meet some arbitrary writing spec for a journal
I understand that colors can color, heh, our perceptions but being a primarily visual animal means that we can digest information much quicker through color.
Without seeing the charts, I can’t say if the Prof is just being a curmudgeon or not.
the context is all there ... Faith is a graduate student working on their masters thesis, in the thesis paper they included tables that they presumably color-coded (maybe different columns had different colors), and they used multiple colors such that it was "rainbow colored".
Interestingly your link doesn't mention use of color or lack there of. It does say elsewhere that you shouldn't do it for decoration, though.
That said, things like this are more dictated by the journal you publish to and a thesis has to imitate that. Solution? Graduate and start a journal that requires beautiful color tables, lol
yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor
I have heard horror stories about how specific formatting has to be for a thesis or dissertation, though - and often those rules are very specific to a particular university or even department. So it's also possible for rules like that to be local and not from a universal standard like the APA guide.
yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor
Eh, you'd be surprised at how far some people will go to criticize women in STEM fields. It's not everyone, and I doubt it's even a majority, but there's enough that I wouldn't be surprised if this is true.
Or maybe the OOP is a mathematical Lisa Frank. Idk
no denying that people criticize women in STEM (as a woman in STEM myself), but there are series of "dear Faith" email posts that collectively seem a bit unlikely in their tone and situation, which is what makes me think it's more likely they're fake than real
that said, this particular email seems more plausible than the other one about plagiarism.
55 Comments
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de · 186 pts · 173d
I feel unable to judge without seeing the actual table.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 77 pts · 173d
Pastels: could be tasteful
Neon: what happened to your eyes?
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 173d
Yeah.
I usually colour code tables to draw attention to key areas.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 172d
I do it all the time at work as an engineer. Red/bold for bad numbers, green/bold for good numbers. Maybe orange/bold for mixed bag
Vlyn@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 172d
Red/green isn't really a good combination due to color blindness. Either go blue/orange or at least add icons like ↑ and ↓ next to it.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 172d
C# in Excel can't even properly pull values from a table correctly. No way I'm going to waste 2-3 trying to make it concatenate non-alphanumeric characters into cells.
At work, there isn't anyone I have to send tables to that is colorblind. And if that changes, they can make a request. Until then, I'm sticking with red/green
Vlyn@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 172d
What is this abomination you speak of? Are you creating your reports by going C# into Excel? O.o
Jolteon@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 172d
djmikeale@feddit.dk · 12 pts · 172d
Imagine this, but in a word doc:
perishthethought@piefed.social · 2 pts · 170d
Oooh. I use Rainbow Tables CSV extension in VS Code too. It's a great help!
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 172d
Yeah. My conditional formatting makes some of my Excel tables look like I'm defragging my harddrive.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 99 pts · 173d
Here is a colored chart of all my favorite colors:
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 172d
Why do you hate UV and infrared?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 41 pts · 172d
I'm not a shrimp 🤷♂️
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 11 pts · 172d
Sounds like something someone who doesn't want tonget eaten would say.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 17 pts · 172d
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 172d
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org · 4 pts · 172d
You don’t see them?
ICastFist@programming.dev · 21 pts · 172d
Where are my dark colors? I wanna be broody and edgy
psoul@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 172d
Why do you hate brown? Pastel colors?
SystemDisc@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 172d
all colors
dumbass@piefed.social · 60 pts · 173d
The APA table I imagined.
eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 173d
They can't even have a pile of baking soda and some baggies?
dumbass@piefed.social · 2 pts · 172d
THE APA drank beer and kicked ass, they didnt need any illicit drugs to do that. Pure Spite and booze fueld them.
kautau@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 173d
Well, rainbow tables are really valuable in certain disciplines, just not those rainbow tables
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 173d
What if they’re rainbow coloured rainbow tables? (The thought that someone would print out rainbow tables for their thesis is slightly amusing)
Tja@programming.dev · 12 pts · 173d
Well, for when you're 300 pages short and you add an appendix...
newtraditionalists@kbin.melroy.org · 38 pts · 173d
Seeing "Why!" makes my brain angry lol
MagicShel@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 173d
Why, land sakes! What has your jimmies rustled?
Monument@lemmy.sdf.org · 35 pts · 172d
A friend once received an email riddled with misspellings and grammatical errors from her boss that critiqued her (appropriate) use of exclamation points. Specifically, that appearing cheerful was not professional.
Some people just like to be miserable.
nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de · 30 pts · 172d
There's nothing wrong with rainbow tables. Printing them sounds a bit excessive, though.
Zacryon@feddit.org · 29 pts · 172d
Not using colors in scientific writing is discarding a valuable information channel and therefore inefficient. When you are already limited in the allowed word count, this can speed up conveying information and reduce cognitive strain on readers (and possibly yourself). So it's a win-win.
This should not end in chaos though, where colours are more confusing than helpful.
The times when we had to print out each and every single page on a crappy black/white office printer are luckily becoming more and more a thing of the past. So even this is no longer a good reason to not use colours.
erev@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 172d
Be sure to be careful and thoughtful in your color palette though because if colors are important to the understanding of information then it should be accessible.
mushroommunk@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 173d
I've only ever been academia adjacent and I'm glad. Some of the most soulless people I've ever met. It's the lab grunts who know how to party. Until they have the life sucked out of them to meet some arbitrary writing spec for a journal
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 172d
Faith, what are you doing? Rainbow Tables are for the CS class!
etchinghillside@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 173d
I’m beginning to think Faith shouldn’t have chosen higher education.
deliriousdreams@fedia.io · 39 pts · 173d
Because it can't accept her avant garde use of color to facilitate learning? Because Faith is ahead of her time? Because she is a pioneer?
Broadfern@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 172d
What is her crime? Enjoying a table? A colorful, rainbow table?
This is education manifest!
ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee · 11 pts · 172d
Did the colors in question lack adequate succulency?
Dojan@pawb.social · 10 pts · 173d
I have full faith in her. Faith did nothing wrong!
morto@piefed.social · 4 pts · 173d
Faith in Faith
Ratio_Tile@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 173d
I do think a rainbow table would be welcome in Elementary Ed
RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 173d
I understand that colors can color, heh, our perceptions but being a primarily visual animal means that we can digest information much quicker through color.
Without seeing the charts, I can’t say if the Prof is just being a curmudgeon or not.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 172d
Haven't been able to locate the definitive source, but there are several of these out there with Faith and Professor Kutaywa.
Believe it originates somewhere on LinkedIn, but very rare for a LinkedIn meme to escape the platform.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 172d
Clearly fake - no-one puts first supervisor in their email signature!
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 172d
You’d hope a professor would understand capitalisation. I know in real life that many don’t though.
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 172d
Ah the heady experience of a virgin clown-sighting. We all remember. Bring on the rainbows, Little Bobby Tables.
Lumidaub@feddit.org · 2 pts · 173d
Context, nao.
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 36 pts · 173d
the context is all there ... Faith is a graduate student working on their masters thesis, in the thesis paper they included tables that they presumably color-coded (maybe different columns had different colors), and they used multiple colors such that it was "rainbow colored".
Apparently the thesis advisor did not like the presence of color and advises using APA guidelines on how to style & format the tables: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/tables-figures/tables
taiyang@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 173d
Interestingly your link doesn't mention use of color or lack there of. It does say elsewhere that you shouldn't do it for decoration, though.
That said, things like this are more dictated by the journal you publish to and a thesis has to imitate that. Solution? Graduate and start a journal that requires beautiful color tables, lol
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 173d
yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor
I have heard horror stories about how specific formatting has to be for a thesis or dissertation, though - and often those rules are very specific to a particular university or even department. So it's also possible for rules like that to be local and not from a universal standard like the APA guide.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 172d
Eh, you'd be surprised at how far some people will go to criticize women in STEM fields. It's not everyone, and I doubt it's even a majority, but there's enough that I wouldn't be surprised if this is true.
Or maybe the OOP is a mathematical Lisa Frank. Idk
dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 172d
no denying that people criticize women in STEM (as a woman in STEM myself), but there are series of "dear Faith" email posts that collectively seem a bit unlikely in their tone and situation, which is what makes me think it's more likely they're fake than real
that said, this particular email seems more plausible than the other one about plagiarism.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 172d
Just saw the plagiarism email post and teah... this is starting to seem fake
Eswe42@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 172d
First plagiarism and how this? - Get your shit together Faith!
JetpackJackson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 170d
I need the sauce behind this
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 172d