misleading

If a chart is seen by enough people, someone will call it misleading. There are no exceptions.

But probably not.

Welcome to another edition of Misleading or Not, where we decide if a map is misleading or not.

This week, people were taking a closer look at the Georgia Department of Public Health’s Covid-19 status page (again), which led to an unnecessary pile-on.

Welcome to another episode of Misleading or Not? where we look at a chart and decide if it’s misleading or not.

A 3-D rendered map of Australia depicting a month of bushfires grew popular last week. Some thought it misleading. Others thought it was okay. It’s probably somewhere in the middle of that.

Charts can reveal truths that we never would see otherwise, but they can…

The truth is that all charts are misleading. In some sense. The key is minimizing how much.