Mark Twain once wrote, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” (He attributed the quip to former British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, but its true origin is unknown.) ...

Abstract: Graphs effectively communicate data because they capitalize on the visual system’s ability to rapidly extract patterns. Yet, this pattern extraction does not occur in a single glance.

Summary statistics are useful because they condense a huge number of observations into a single figure that is simple to understand and share. This property explains why averages and correlations are ...

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What’s the global data journalism community tweeting about this week? Our NodeXL #ddj mapping from July 29 to August 4 finds a number of articles related to the climate crisis, including the BBC’s ...

The Datasaurus Dozen is a playful twist on Anscombe's Quartet. A group of twelve datasets, with nigh-identical summary statistics, yet when plotted on a graph they prove to be distinctly dissimilar.