The State of the Union – Checking the Fact Checker

The annual State of the Union speech by the president can always be trusted to include a few numbers that can be called into question. This years speech was no different. The next morning the Washington Post fact checker was out with his take on the numbers. The interesting thing was the title of the […]

Fiscal Cliff – Graphing the Impact of the Compromise

With the compromise the other night on the fiscal cliff negotiations there has been the usual proliferation of graphics in the media trying to convey to the public the impact of the decisions on changes in the structure of the the tax changes. On such article appeared in the Washington Post. The accompanying graphic left […]

Romney – manufacturing jobs ad – How not to do bar graphs

The Romney campaign has come out with an add critical of the Obama administration on the status a manufacturing jobs in the United States vs those in China. Whoever put together the graphics for the ad must have spend a great deal of time studying how to lie with graphics for the graphics in the […]

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