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CatalinaWOW:
Multiple completely different subjects here.  The original graph appears to contain useful data, poorly presented.  While it doesn't appear to be an earthshaking contribution to knowledge, I can't say whether it is one of a family of nearly identical papers generated to enhance pub count.

There is also an element of snobbery at places in this thread.  Though I wouldn't want to see a performance characterization of a particular brand and model number component being accepted as someone's PhD thesis I certainly find such data useful and want to see it published.
RJSV:
   Don't see it, but many folks involved in complexity overlook mistakes, until later or until a really not distracted time.  What's the defect ?

   And, Alex E.; I see a bit of 'crawling' dots on the green dots...The green shade is most efficient for human sensitivity.  Those green dots wiggle slightly, when head moves.
IanB:

--- Quote from: TimFox on December 06, 2022, 08:35:23 pm ---A very simple example, using my choice on formats, is appended as a jpeg.
Since this was intended for insertion into a Word document, it is monochrome.
--- End quote ---

That does look good.

By the by, I tend to use color freely in Word documents these days. For one, because they are mostly read on a screen and rarely printed anymore, and secondly if someone does want to print it then color printers are very common.
Zero999:
Veiled advertising is a big problem. It's important to check who funded the study to find any potential conflicts of interest.

Political motives i.e. social justice as also a problem. It used to mostly affect the humanities but has started creeping into medicine. I've not seen it in engineering yet. This is often a bit more tricky to spot, as more often than not the author is doing it for their own cause, rather than a certain party.
TimFox:
Especially when reading on a screen, using different colors for each curve is certainly a good idea.
Before I retired, we were asked to keep color printing to a minimum in-house, for cost-control reasons, and I only have a mono printer at home.
What I like about this program is that they have a good selection of the usual fonts, with bold-face optional.
Some other programs, when using log scales, force one to have integer powers of 10 as maximum and minimum, but Grapher allows arbitrary end values, with choice of "E" or "10N" notation.
It also allows one to choose major and minor tick increments, and to show limited numbers of major tick labels, if desired.
Besides colors, it allows choosing line widths and dashes, and using multiple axes (one pair for each curve).
One thing I don't like:  it uses Excel as the input for values, which must be in parallel vertical columns.
However, if I see an error on the graph, and go back to the Excel file to correct that entry, I need to re-name the Excel file and select it in Grapher;  otherwise, it doesn't recognize the change from the original data.
It's not cheap:  a single-user "perpetual" purchase, with 1 year support is $679;  a single-user subscription is $329/year.
https://www.goldensoftware.com/products/grapher
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