Alex Lundry gives us lessons in graphical literacy for political speech. Some pointers:

• Common tactic: Play games with the origin and axis. (Change where the chart’s “zero” is.)
• Correlation / Causation: Don’t conflate them.
• “Pie charts suck, so be wary of them.”

And he gives us a great video.

[h/t Infosthetics]

Tags: Alex Lundry, data, design, video, visualization

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