Exploring How SE Academic Papers Use Figures
The usage of figures to represent data or concepts in scientific articles is a common practice. We aim to understand what figures are used for in SE articles and in particular how quantitative data is represented. For this purpose we analyzed 865 articles published in leading software engineering scientific conferences and journals and classified 6342 figures and their contents. 47% of the figures are used to convey quantitative information and the rest depict more abstract non-quantitative information. The most common types of quantitative diagrams are bar plots, box plots, and line plots, accounting for 75% of the quantitative figures. We also found that each figure contains 1.6 errors, although 75% of them do not contain any critical error. Critical blatant errors are found in less than 5% of the figures.
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16:00 18mTalk | Exploring How SE Academic Papers Use Figures WSESE DOI Pre-print | ||
16:18 18mTalk | Integrating Positionality Statements in Empirical Software Engineering Research WSESE Breno Felix de Sousa Federal University of Pernambuco, Ronnie de Souza Santos University of Calgary, Kiev Gama Universidade Federal de Pernambuco | ||
16:36 15mTalk | Methodological and Practical Challenges in Longitudinal, Large Scale, Collaborative Questionnaire Survey Research WSESE | ||
16:51 15mTalk | Analyzing and interpreting software development cost estimation error WSESE Magne Jørgensen Simula Metropolitan Center for Digital Engineering Pre-print | ||
17:06 19mLive Q&A | Qualitative Aspects: Discussion WSESE | ||
17:25 5mOther | Conclusions WSESE |