Topic
One chart fix
The quickest way to learn what a chart is doing to you is to watch it change into a better one while the numbers stay put.
Each clip in this series opens on a real chart with a real problem — a cropped axis, a 3D pie, a dual axis engineered to make two lines cross — and then transforms it in place. Nothing is added and nothing is removed. Only the encoding changes, and with it, usually, the conclusion.
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Every clip here states its source and the period it covers, and carries the underlying numbers on its page as a table you can copy.
In this topic
What it covers
- 1What a cropped axis is worth in apparent percentage points
- 2Why 3D effects cost accuracy and buy nothing
- 3How dual axes manufacture a relationship out of two unrelated series
- 4What chart junk hides behind decoration
- 5How to spot the fix before the animation gets there
Reels
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