Truth or Truthiness: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction by Learning to Think Like a Data Scientist by Howard Wainer

Author:Howard Wainer
Language: eng
Format: mobi, pdf
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-02-28T14:00:00+00:00

Figure 9.2. A restructuring of the same data shown in Figure 9.1 making clearer what changed in the sources of government receipts between the year 2000 and 2007.

I wasn’t surprised that such details were obscured in the original display, for my expectation of data displays constructed for broad consumption was not high. Hence when I was told of a graph in an article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine about the topics that American clergy choose to speak out on, I anticipated the worst. My imagination created, floating before my eyes, a pie chart displaying such data (Figure 9.3). My imagination can only stretch so far, hence the pie I saw had only two dimensions, and the categories were ordered by size.

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