if Verizon buying 45% of Vodaphone makes the list then Berkshire Hathaway buying 5.8% of apple should make the list. Current market value of 132 Billion...

Wow! Makes wonder how accurate the speedometer is.

Fascinating, but I feel like a more useful metric would be Number of Medical Schools per capita or per square kilometer. Brazil is pretty big both geographically and by population.

Source: WDOMS

Tool used: Excel

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This is great. I see a lot of these misleading charts (surprise surprise) when people discuss political issues. Additionally a lack of variables.

Great depiction. Sharing with fellow nerds.

I rented a car the other day where the speedometer did this. Equal spacing of 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40, 50, 60... Just suddenly switched from 5 to 10 kmph increments with no visual indicator.confused the hell out of me.

Telecom companies are seriously dirty sluts

Anyone have an idea how to make a straight line representation of a river as a "ruler" attached to other polygon data, eg, surrounding census boundaries?

Like this ruler in the LA River Master Plan.

I know some GIS and can't figure it out, but I'm guessing this was done using D3 or something?

Actually that would be +1000%! The numbers are crazy.

Nope, it actually has 104% more. If you look closely, there is a slight green tint to it.

The moment you compare those temperature, either in graph or in percent, you need to switch to K first.

10°C is not half as cold as 20°C

I think there are good reasons to cut a y axis short, but you have to know your audience. If there are small differences, but you want to draw attention to those differences, it can make sense. I've done it in academic papers before, comparing scores in one group around 80% and scores in the other group around 87%. Statistically significant, but the full-scaled graph just doesn't present that information clearly. Scientists can handle looking at the y axis to check, but your everyday person likely won't.

What's your opinion on hand-drawn charts?

Ye I just watched a video on it and it's insane that time warner just agreed to it.

And you where right AOL bought them

"Never attribute to typos what can be adequately explained by an indifference to the shift key."

Another one that chaps my ass is representing 1-dimensional data with 2-dimensional areas. Almost always misrepresents the data.

This is nothing new if you've read Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers.

Thanks, Yes I am

How to lie with statistics by Darell Huff. It was originally published in 1954 but it still as relevant of ever, highly recommend. The book discusses some of the most common misleading statistics.

Look more closely. United Tech and Raytheon is on there, but at a higher inflation-adjusted number.

If the republicans didn’t have misleading charts, they have no charts.

Stuff like this is why I think an intro data science/intro stats course should be mandatory in high school.

AOL and Time Warner. This will be taught in bad decisions in business schools for a long time. Proof that CEO's "vision" is limited.

Aka "how to lie with statistics"

Good book. I suggest everyone read it.