FiveThirtyEight used a dataset on broadband as the basis for a couple of…
Mistaken Data
Oops. That does not look right.
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When data is not quite what it seems
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When the interesting pattern ends up just being computer byproduct
Good lesson here. Christian Laesser was playing around with receipt data and initially…
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Misleading Medicaid funding with the baseline
The administration tweeted a chart that shows the Senate Republican health care bill…
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Common statistical interpretation mistakes
Statistics is a game of subtleties, and you lose when you don’t pay…
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Data distributed as clipart
Government data isn’t always the easiest to use with computers. Maybe it’s in…
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Skittle disconnect
This is what happens when there is a disconnect between data and what…
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Sans human, Facebook’s Trending Topics algorithm faired poorly
Last week, Facebook announced that it was making the Trending Topics section more…
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Guide to spotting data BS
As we delve deeper into election season, politicians will spit out more and…
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Science formally retracts LaCour paper
Last week, graduate student Michael J. LaCour was in the news for allegedly…
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Graduate student makes up data for fake findings
Last month, This American Life ran a story about research that asked if…
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Questionable fumble statistics for Deflate-Gate
A data-centric look at New England Patriots fumble rates at home made the…
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Basic chart, wrong conclusions
A short post on Bloomberg from 2013 describes the fall of U.S. mens’…
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Unintentional Venn diagram suggests opposite meaning
Most people probably wouldn’t think much about this poster that shows the values…
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Geography.
By way of David Kennerr, something in this CNN frame seems off.…
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Newborn false positives
Shutterfly sent promotional emails that congratulate new parents and encourage them to send…
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Fox News bar chart gets it wrong
Because Fox News. See also this, this, and this. [Thanks, Meron]…
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This pie chart is amazing.
From the Winnipeg Sun. Something isn’t right here. [via]…
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Incredibly divided nation in a map
I knew things were bad, but I didn’t know they were this bad.…
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Fox News continues charting excellence
Fox News tried to show the change in the top tax rate if…
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Mitt Romney pseudo-venn diagram, used incorrectly
The Mitt Romney campaign put this venn diagram up a few days ago,…
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Why are so many men pregnant?
Garbage in, garbage out the old adage goes. Nigel Hawkes, Director of Straight…
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New iPad battery size is huge
From Gizmodo, this shows battery size in the new iPad versus that of…
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Fox News still makes awesome charts
Charts and graphs are great, because they can let you see a pattern…
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Open thread: Can you spot the wrongness in this tax graph?
The argument behind this graph in The Wall Street Journal is that the…
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Open thread: Charts during the State of the Union address
President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address yesterday, and this…
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Right versus wrong bubble size
I was going to post this graphic from Good when it came out,…
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Harvard scientist found guilty of misconduct
Shady research from Harvard scientist Marc Hauser is confirmed: On Friday, Michael D.…
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Wait. Something isn’t right here…
No clue where this is from, but something seems sort of off, no? I guess we should take the title literally. By the numbers... only. I'm going to give the benefit of the doubt though, and assume this was just an honest mistake. Here's my guess about what happened.
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Fox News Makes the Best Pie Chart. Ever.
What? I don’t see anything wrong with it.…
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What’s Wrong With this Graphic on the Future of Information?
This graphic on the history and future of information has been making the…
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