News that’s ‘fit’ to print: Quantitative data in the popular press
Largest problems
Example of these problems
Failure to anticipate Y axis
What’s the story?
Propagandistic distortion in scale
Propagandistic distortion in chart
Bars hide trends; lines show delta
Chart doesn’t tell the story
Graph or table?
Good fever and story
Bad x
Bad y
Example of multiple problems
Chart junk
Horrendous chart junk
Better
Lies
Damn lies
And charts!
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