Leenke De Donder presentation at Meetup Big Data and Ethics at DigitYser Brussels 15 June 2017

Deceiving Data Visualization

How to screw it up in the end

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Hi, I’m Leenke

Data Journalism graduate

Analyst & Designer at Foursevens

Graphic Designgraduate

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Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Customer centric

If you’re a company that delivers food, then all you need is an address

The Foursevens mindset

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Pitfalls in Design

Moralvalues

Transparency Literacy of the audience

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

From data to wisdom through data visualization

Information KnowledgeData

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Wisdom

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Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Seeing is believing

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Pitfalls in Design

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Pitfalls in Design

Truncated Axis

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Bron: https://flowingdata.com/2017/02/09/how-to-spot-visualization-lies

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Pitfalls in Design

Truncated Axis

Wrong numbers and sums

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Bron: https://twitter.com/de_NVA

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Bron: https://twitter.com/verbeke_t

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Bron: https://twitter.com/openvld

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Pitfalls in Design

Truncated Axis

Wrong numbers and sums

Comparing Area Sizes

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

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Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Pitfalls in Design

Truncated Axis

Wrong numbers and sums

Comparing Area Sizes

Limited Scope

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Bron: https://twitter.com/openvld

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Moral Values

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

MoralValues

Proving your point

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Bron: https://visualisingadvocacy.org/blog/disinformation-visualization-how-lie-datavis

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

MoralValues

Proving your point

Oversimplification

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Bron: Het Nieuwsblad Weekend 14/03/2015

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Transparency

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Transparency Communicating uncertainty

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Bron: http://rocknpoll.graphics/

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Transparency Communicating uncertainty

Sharing datasets

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Bron: https://twitter.com/de_NVA

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Literacy of theAudience

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Literacy of the audience

Know your audience

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

Literacy of the audience

Know your audience

Communicate your method

Deceiving Data Visualization How to screw it up in the end

How Deceptive are Deceptive Visualizations?

How to lie with Data Visualization

How to spot Data Visualization lies

How to ethically communicate data in a visual manner

Talking visualization literacy

Sources & Further reading

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