Chart Junk in the New York Times

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Friday, September 28th, 2007 at 9:05 am

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“Checking out the New York Times’s infographic on the housing bubble, I thought ‘wow! Look at how much prices climbed!’. Then I read the fine print and realized they’ve completely distorted the vertical scale to make the increase look enormous.”

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