{"id":1408,"date":"2014-04-15T15:08:57","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T22:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2014-04-15T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T22:08:57","slug":"how-to-lie-with-data-visualization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/15\/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;how to lie with data visualization&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write a post with this exact title, and apparently based on the same data visualization that I saw yesterday. \u00a0Ravi Parikh beat me to it, and listed three excellent ways to <a href=\"http:\/\/data.heapanalytics.com\/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization\/\">lie with data visualization<\/a>. \u00a0They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>use a truncated y-axis<\/li>\n<li>use cumulative graphs<\/li>\n<li>ignore conventions for graphs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s an excellent post filled with examples. \u00a0You should read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write a post with this exact title, and apparently based on the same data visualization that I saw yesterday. \u00a0Ravi Parikh beat me to it, and listed three excellent ways to lie with data visualization. \u00a0They are: use a truncated y-axis use cumulative graphs ignore conventions for graphs It&#8217;s an excellent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/15\/how-to-lie-with-data-visualization\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;how to lie with data visualization&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1409,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}