Halloween logicals

Many lists of maps promise to change the way you see the world, but this one actually does.

There are many ways to die. Cancer. Infection. Mental. External. This is how different groups of people died over the past 10 years, visualized by age.

There are rules—usually for specific chart types meant to be read in a specific way—that you shouldn’t break. When they are, everyone loses. This is that small handful.

Many charts don’t tell the truth. This is a simple guide to spotting them.