Charts that mislead

How a chart can say the opposite of the data: truncated axes, manipulated scales, misleading areas, impossible pie charts and percentages with no base, with examples to fix and a checklist.

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What’s inside

  1. Charts that lie
  2. The axis that starts late
  3. The same data, with the axis at zero
  4. Five common tricks
  5. Choosing the period
  6. Area misleads
  7. Percentages without a base
  8. Ten seconds before believing a chart
  9. Chart hunter

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