Book Excerpt

Keep your graphs and charts honest by avoiding these common data visualization pitfalls.

Did Reuters and Fox News intend to mislead their audiences by these terrible charts?

Amy Balliett
Better Humans
Published in
5 min readNov 4, 2020

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An 18th century bar graph.
One of the earliest known bar graphs, from The Commercial and Political Atlas.

Whether in school or in the workplace, the majority of us have had to either read or create charts and graphs at some point in…

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