Posted on Tue 03 June 2014

Lies, Damned Lies and Dataviz

I recently gave a talk at the Big Data Innovation Summit called Lies, Damned Lies & Dataviz: Bad visualization, and how to avoid it. The aim: educate and entertain. I’m not above resorting to mockery when a graphic is particularly incompetent or manipulative, and I’ve never had that many laughs from a conference crowd before.

Politicians lie -- who knew

Pearson Labs asked to write up a short blog post version which is here — enjoy. And if you liked that, I’ll be revisiting the same subject at a Skills Matter event in November.

Category: news

Tags: visualization, events

 

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