This article is satire. Using bogus visualizations to spread misinformation is not cool. The purpose of this article is to teach you how to spot misinformation. Do you have a narrative you need to…

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Advanced Techniques in Lying Using Data Visualizations

Great article. Useful for me when dealing with my clients 😈
Data is the eye of the beholder!

This really upsets me… these techniques are lying and manipulation. Many of those examples… they might as well not be using the real dataset. Good to know to be weary of and never just trust a visualization… but showing data in some of those ways can’t even be argued as ‘accurate’, but rather ‘misrepresentation’ and therefore fraudulent in a way. We should all foster good visualization ethics and strive to be stewards for informing our audiences!