Beautiful charts and data visualisation are part of our web experience these days.
When it goes right they look great and can offer insight into whatever topic is being discussed.
But when it goes wrong it’s beautiful or beautifully funny for a whole set of different reasons, as celebrated by the glorious Twitter account Accidental_aRt.
The hipster tattoo design
Plotted the SPDF of bat habitat ranges instead of the richness raster & landed on this delicate hipster line tattoo.@accidental__aRt #rstats pic.twitter.com/ioSBTE5v8F
— Brooke Watson (@brookLYNevery1) June 6, 2017
It’s like a Magic Eye puzzle
View full size for extra trippiness… @accidental__aRt pic.twitter.com/vcnGTNd2mG
— Simon Rolph (@simon_rolph) June 12, 2017
The lost Super Mario level
.@accidental__aRt pic.twitter.com/5AEBP3yGjK
— Dan Zimmerman (@N3OX) December 29, 2016
Describe the beakers
Looks like I created some new laboratory glassware @accidental__aRt pic.twitter.com/JPH0YUq77E
— Oliver Schär (@oliverschaer) June 2, 2017
Someone’s been playing with a Spirograph
The joys of coding: that is not what this chart is supposed to look like. pic.twitter.com/lzu0TWtZw3
— Matt Ashby (@LessCrime) June 27, 2017
Can we have a Batman-esque “Pow!”
Accidental art in polar coords (polaRt?), comic-book-explosion-style@accidental__aRt pic.twitter.com/xXtpt00SnK
— N. S. Vitek (@nsvitek) May 31, 2017
And a “ka-pow”
This is the best R mistake I have ever made. @accidental__aRt pic.twitter.com/SewvHPrKi1
— Alison Feder (@AlisonFeder) March 3, 2017
Inadvertent Death Star creation happens a lot
Just made a Death Star under construction. @accidental__aRt pic.twitter.com/Zc97Gqq1Lr
— Peter Yoachim (@PeterYoachim) June 21, 2017
My attempt at a gene co-expression network looks like the death star! @accidental__aRt pic.twitter.com/MRwuPaHTxc
— Luke Holman (@LukeHolman_Evo) November 23, 2016
This one’s going on the wall
Had a happy accident with #ggplot2 decided to hang it in my office. #rstats pic.twitter.com/veZD5LVHhq
— Helicity Boson (@HelicityBoson) March 1, 2017
And here’s the forest by the moon
@accidental__aRt Wasn’t careful enough with scaling in a polar→xyz conversion. pic.twitter.com/rGtBiJO1ta
— Charlie 🦎 Loyd (@vruba) July 28, 2016
Bids accepted
#brokeRstatsandmadeart Bids for this masterpiece are now being accepted pic.twitter.com/Y7XuWFPifd
— Marie-Louise Timcke (@datentaeterin) June 21, 2017
Pie charts, the cubist phase
Missed out the decimal point in a pie chart radius, but I kinda like it @accidental__aRt pic.twitter.com/qsDdp4hson
— Esther Dale (@estheraceae) April 13, 2017
“I don’t even know”
I don't even know… @accidental__aRt pic.twitter.com/F8uJk5tDOY
— Jesper Maag (@JesperMaag) April 11, 2017
I have no idea what I broke, but I love it. #ggplot2 #rstats pic.twitter.com/xRjb8Y9dfs
— Nick Strayer (@NicholasStrayer) January 9, 2017
When data becomes self-aware
.. till one day, when he was all alone, he looked deep into #rstats and it.. looked back. it seemed to know him, somehow pic.twitter.com/Kl228NaIQT
— Andrew MacDonald (@polesasunder) February 6, 2017
