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Alberto Cairo, "How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information" (Norton, 2019)

New Books in Mathematics

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Is It Better to Show Too Much Data or a Derivative Statistic?

A chart can be made worse or better depending upon its ability to strike a balance between oversimplifying reality and obscuring it with too much detail. "The murder rate curve is an excessive, I would say, simplification of a very complex data set," he says. Sometimes we need to compare or we need to assess nominal values, actual counts, for example,. sometimes we need to take a look at adjusted values, right?

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