Many people take a basic statistics course in college. Those course usually include an overview of standard graphs and best practices for visualizing data.
To keep that section from getting boring (“here’s a line graph… here’s a bar chart…”) you can borrow my slides on #chartcrimes Teaching people best practices is more engaging when you can show real examples of charts gone wrong.
These are pictures I dropped directly into slides and talked through:
P.S. Joke I made about this section of my textbook:
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Some of these examples hurt my soul… thanks for sharing!
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