A short data-driven observation exploring whether commit size (lines changed) correlates with commit message length, using the Luigi open-source project as a dataset. The author's intuition was that small commits get long explanations while large refactors get terse messages, but the plotted data shows essentially no relationship between the two variables. An interactive image map visualization lets readers hover over data points to see individual commit messages.

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