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Excess delay
Bar chart

Excess delay

Kaiser finds a chart that analyzes London's congestion charging programme.
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Neither the forest nor the trees
Business

Neither the forest nor the trees

Kaiser attempts to read a treemap of stock market values.
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The cult of raw unadjusted data
Data

The cult of raw unadjusted data

Kaiser looks at a chart that supposedly says nothing.
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Dual axes: a favorite of tricksters
dual axes

Dual axes: a favorite of tricksters

Kaiser comes across a quintessential example of using dual axes with intent to mislead.
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The media has nine lives
Covid-19

The media has nine lives

Kaiser checks the charts. How is omicron mild?
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Vaccine researchers discard the start-at-zero rule
Axis

Vaccine researchers discard the start-at-zero rule

Kaiser revisits the practice of manipulating the vertical axis of a column chart.
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