Misleading Graphs

… and how to fix them!

One, perhaps underestimated, aspect of any data-related job is presenting and visualizing your results. Communicating the data that you have at your disposal can be incredibly difficult. With that comes the possibility of accidentally creating misleading graphs.

Although most of us know about the many issues pie charts can present (here, here, and here), there are many ways charts could be misleading.

Not all pie charts are bad! Image by the author.