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Posts tagged: data visualization

  • Florence Nightingale's Rose Diagrams

    How Nightingale used polar area charts to make mortality data legible to people who would not read a table, and why the design choices were deliberate and effective.

    May 7, 2026

    • Florence Nightingale rose diagram coxcomb chart
    • statistical visualization history
    • Nightingale polar area diagram
    • data visualization
    • undergraduate
  • How Charts Mislead Without Lying

    Truncated axes, dual y-axes, cherry-picked time windows, and area encoding errors. What to look for before trusting a chart.

    May 7, 2026

    • data visualization
    • misleading charts statistics
    • truncated axis chart
    • how to read charts critically
    • undergraduate

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