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Standard deviation is the square root of the variance of a random variable, an estimator thereof, or a similar measure of the spread of a batch of data.

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How to characterize variance with large datasets

I have a large dataset (> 100,000 rows) of ecological data. In some of my first attempts to visualize the data, I used bar plots with calculated means and error bars (see below plots). My go-to for er …
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