“Semantic Clashes” in Data Visualization

Jul 1

When it's hard to figure out what a graph communicates

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Very interesting. This post also reminds me about this article by Eli Holder about misinterpreted bar charts of averages https://www.effaff.com/sketchy-bar-charts/

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Uh ... I did not know it. Thanks for sharing!

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