accidental aRt

@accidental-art

When data visualization goes beautifully wrong. @accidental__aRt Tweet !function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=/^http:/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+'://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs'); Curated by @kara_woo and @ErikaMudrak

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I was only trying to plot a colour bar.

via Charlotte

Accidentally put way too much on here. I like how it looks from far away, though!

via Alex K

My trippy attempt at interpolating cyanobacterial toxin data across Lake Mendota (Madison, WI)

via Riley Hale

A false color image (probably a bit too false), from data by Eumetsat.

via Laurent

Visualization of igraph::sample_smallworld() but I accidentally made the nodes invisible. I think it looks like the Venus of Willendorf. @gabrielrossman

Trying to fit density curves for a score separated by 2 classes. The problem is that the score is categorical, so turns out a density plot produces art instead :)

via Alexandre

This is what happens when you forget to pass one parameter to your plotting function in MATLAB. Certainly unexpected, but not without artistic charm.

via Chris

When time series plotting goes terribly wrong…

via Johannes

via Matthew

I’m thinking of framing this

via Michael

Building a circular Voronoi by modifying code from the deldir package and using viridis colours. It is just random data for testing so not an accident per se, but didn’t think it would looks this pretty.

via Graeme