This cartoon caption can be used to illustrate the idea that over-cleaning or over-smoothing messy data may risk the loss of important information and yield a misleading characterization of the data. The cartoon was used in the March 2025 CAUSE cartoon caption contest and the winning caption was written by Jerry Nedelman from the TB Alliance. The cartoon was drawn by British cartoonist John Landers (www.landers.co.uk) based on an idea by Dennis Pearl from Penn State University.
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