Reading #4

by Christian Swinehart

Profiles in Badness

from Kieran Healy, Carl Bergstrom, & Jevin West

Read Healy's introductory chapter from Data Visualization for Social Science:

- Look at Data: What Makes Bad Figures Bad

Read Bergstrom & West's Calling Bullshit essays:

- Misleading axes on graphs

- The Principle of Proportional Ink

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