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When I was in physics, I always read "a typical example of the data from an experimental run is shown in figure 1" as "we have carefully selected the best data, shown in figure 1." It sounds like that is the case here.

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Perhaps worryingly the same is true in CS papers also.

I genuinely think there should be a "No code? No Data? No Paper" rule instated from the top.

Ha! Perhaps you have not published a theory paper. I'm on the systems side but theory is real too, even if there is no perf test. Systems papers can benefit from code and data though ;-)

Put it this way, I have read a lot of papers that are basically pure theory (~5-10 pages of mathematics) but with some graphs of how effective the theory of at the end. Again, no code, no error bars, no data etc.

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