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by steego 3632 days ago
Maps and graphs are usually used to tell a story or to highlight an interesting pattern. Am I missing something here? All I see is a color coded map whose colors change volatilely because the scales are changing.
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>tell a story or to highlight an interesting pattern

the story here is how visualizations are leveraged to manipulate peoples' conclusions. Especially when the conclusions inferred by the data directly contradict the authors' own.