I don't really love this example tbh. look at where the lines cross at 82.5% - what does that tell you? the viz is clearly saying that there is some significance to 82.5% of workers being full time by nature of having that be where the lines meet - but what does it actually mean? you could move the axes so that the lines cross at whatever arbitrary point you want. if your viz is going to imply that a certain data point is significant, I think it actually should be

Canadians think immigration is good 🤔

Just a nitpick but you've used the wrong Astra logo I think. That's the logo of the satellite company.

I wonder if there is room for some journalism exam that requires passage. How to properly display data, etc. It wouldn't have to be exceptionally complicated but I think there are zero entrance requirements to being a journalist. At least you could say 'certified' or some such. Maybe there is qualification exam out there I don't know of.

I found it interesting how many of these large merger acquisitions occurred in 1998-9 and 2015.

Those were big years for mergers apparently.

Every day I’m grateful of taking stats in high school. Most valuable “real world application” class I’ve ever had.

Wikipedia says Bank of America bought nations bank, not the other way around

Or people not realizing it is logorithmic

Or activist groups trying to put a spin on dara to boost their cause

Figma balls

Big problem with journalists and medical studies. The paper will have all sorts of conditions on the data but the press will report one finding without these conditions. "Drug X had negative effects on 40% of people with condition Y who take drug Z" becomes "Drug X has negative effects!"

Adding extra data is also a great way to be deceptive.

Really none of these three categories are always deceptive. Often each of these is maybe even required for clear data presentation. But they can be used for deception.

I always wondered why my Kraft Ketchup started tasting like Heinz back in 2015.

Presenting percentage changes of very small numbers as representing trends in a much larger group is something I see too often.

That'll do.

Per 100.000 people.

How to spot bad charts easily: take Statistics

I’m being facetious but as someone who knows a lot about stats, trust me, if you’ve never taken a stats class, they can definitely fool and mislead you with charts and graphs anytime they want most likely

i know vodafone from mclaren in f1

Per Capita is definitely the more appropriate way to visualize this as opposed to raw counts

Why does the scale start at negative 0.398? And why did so many states have that negative change in renewable energy usage?

I wonder if Venezuela has always had a relatively low number of Medical Schools or if that number sharply decreased after 2014

Holy crap. I work with the company 6th option down (formally known as Suez) We went from 3k end users to ~11k over night. Our IT department (which I am apart of) had a ton of fun that Monday morning.

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Roughly how much would the business workers who helped broker the deal get for some of these massive M&As? I imagine they work for a commission or tiny percentage of the entire deal

He just covered this again in the Revisionist History podcast. The age effect is definitely a thing.