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Misleading Data Visualization Examples. Heres an example of data visualization gone wrong terribly wrong. Pie charts are a good example of one of the more often misapplied forms of data visualization. I hate to name and shame but seriously if youre going to tout infographic production as a core offering you need to understand the basic principles of data visualization and design. 2662020 We pulled a few examples of the best and worst practices in data visualization based on the same principles we use to guide our own chart-making.
Lets start with the worst of crimes in data visualisation. According to Cook this data set would be better off as a bar chart. An infographic could zoom in on the line for Facebook making much of the fact that 68 percent of American adults use Facebook. 2662020 We pulled a few examples of the best and worst practices in data visualization based on the same principles we use to guide our own chart-making. I hate to name and shame but seriously if youre going to tout infographic production as a core offering you need to understand the basic principles of data visualization and design. Lets look at the three examples from our archive.
Some are intended to mislead others are intended to shock.
An infographic could zoom in on the line for Facebook making much of the fact that 68 percent of American adults use Facebook. To understand just how easily visualizations can deceive take a look at the following examples and how they can be corrected. Facts and assertions just spring to life when you make them into cool pictures. This incredible data visualization allows you to explore the relationships between characters of every season of the popular TV show game of Thrones. Net Sales for Nokia 2000-2001 with modified interval 7. These are some of my favorite recent-history misleading graphs from real life.