Submitted by inkoativ t3_11xgh25 in dataisbeautiful
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inkoativ OP t1_jd2zi40 wrote
It's either "plastic junk" or a "cool" collectable figure, which is usually part of a figure series! Some of the figures are collector's items and can be quite valuable (see e.g. https://www.eierlei-shop.de/ (in German)).
santimo87 t1_jd3b7ub wrote
I actually preferred the toys, like some figures were OK, some were boring and just collectible and you couldn´t play with those.
DeathStarVet t1_jd34ne0 wrote
That's cool.
I just wish box and whisker plots were more intuitive. They look like the groups are the same, but they might not be? Is there a better way to visualize this?
SFPigeon t1_jd37rjw wrote
Looks like heavier is more likely to contain a figure. Could do a simple line graph of the percentage with figure (y) against the weight (x).
inkoativ OP t1_jd48bgd wrote
The right hand plot gives an indication of such a plot. The blog post, where the figure is taken from, contains such a smoothed line obtained from applying some machine learning classification algorithm to the task (deliberate overkill! :-)).
http://staff.math.su.se/hoehle/blog/figure/source/2016-12-23-surprise/CLASSIFIEROUTPUT-1.png
Source: https://mhoehle.github.io/blog/2016/12/23/surprise.html
inkoativ OP t1_jd48h14 wrote
Agreed, I tried in https://mhoehle.github.io/blog/2016/12/23/surprise.html to calculate a functional shape.
PhDPool t1_jd3iugg wrote
Oh yeah, sometimes you get stickers or a puzzle or some other crap. If it’s not a little car, you know I’ll be mad I didn’t get that figure of a gnome that “transforms” into a hedgehog by laying it down
mr_capello t1_jd3qz21 wrote
would have needed that back in the golden days of surprise eggs
inkoativ OP t1_jd2uauo wrote
Complete Blog Post text as well as Data Source for the n=79 eggs & R-Script to perform the analyses:
marble-polecat t1_jd37hep wrote
Where was this exquisite graph when I was 6yo? Thanks, its great!
underlander t1_jd44bdb wrote
something’s weird here. How can a kinder egg, which comes out of an automatic manufacturing facility, vary by up to 10g and still not have a toy inside? The median weight of the candy is about 32g, so how do you get +/-5g, a big difference for such a lightweight candy, so regularly if there’s not a toy inside?
inkoativ OP t1_jd47qwx wrote
Not sure I fully understand the comment, but the content of the egg is either some kind of toy or a figure. So what varies is the content of the egg, not the chocolate. For some example pictures see https://mhoehle.github.io/blog/2016/12/23/surprise.html.
underlander t1_jd492p4 wrote
so the chart’s kind of misleading. A reasonable person reading this (like me) would assume that “figure” is synonymous with “toy,” so we’re looking at whether or not the kinder egg had anything inside. But you’re saying what’s being measured here is whether it has something that you want, personally. So, that’s really confusing without an explanation
inkoativ OP t1_jd49orh wrote
Thanks for the feedback and sorry, it could have been clearer that we distinguish between "figure" and "toy". I didn't know how to add any extra explanations to the image in Reddit. Thus the blog post contains further details.
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caroticum t1_jd4zr58 wrote
This guy is rich. As a kid I almost never bought Kinder eggs, too expensive.
Ladripper47874 t1_jd2ynbg wrote
Wait, you don't have something in every egg??