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Alberto Cairo, data visualization expert and author of How Charts Lie Whether you are reading a social post, news article or business report, it’s important to know and evaluate the source of the data and charts that you view. Data Visualization expert and author Kathy Rowell says that we should always ask “Compared to What?”,
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