Kieran Healy, a professor of sociology at Duke University, gives an enjoyable lecture on the limits of trust in data visualization.
We were already approaching a place where people could say what they wanted with charts, regardless of what the data really showed. Recent technology has only sped up the process. I just kept wondering where this ends up in five or ten years.
Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics (2nd Edition)
