Misrepresenting COVID-19: Lying With Charts During the Second Golden Age of Data Design
Misrepresenting COVID-19: Lying With Charts During the Second Golden Age of Data Design
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DOI：
10.1177/1050651920958392
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发表时间：
2020-09-10
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Doan, Sara
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作者：
Doan, Sara
在这个数据设计的第二个黄金时代，数字支持使新闻媒体能够偶尔分享有关COVID-19的误导性图表。通过对COVID-19数据可视化的研究，可以发现图表可能误导观众的三种方式：(a)显示不充分的数据，(b)操纵比例和视觉距离，以及(c)省略充分理解图表信息所需的上下文标签。本文为技术传播者提供了包括和显示充分数据，一致表示数字以及人性化COVID-19影响的要点。
In this second golden age of data design, digital affordances enable the news media to share occasionally misleading charts about COVID-19. Examining data visualizations about COVID-19 highlights three ways that charts can mislead viewers: (a) by displaying inadequate data, (b) by manipulating scales and visual distance, and (c) by omitting contextual labels needed to fully understand a chart's message. This article provides takeaways for technical communicators about including and displaying adequate data, representing numbers consistently, and humanizing COVID-19's effects.