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I grouped our crimes against data visualisation into three categories: charts that are (1) misleading, (2) confusing and (3) failing to make a point.
Mistakes, We’ve Drawn a Few
Sarah Leo
Our days are spent trying to “get through” tasks, in order to get them “out of the way,” with the result that we live mentally in the future, waiting for when we’ll finally get around to what really matters—and worrying, in the meantime, that we don’t measure up, that we might lack the drive or stamina to keep pace with the speed at which life now seems to move. “The spirit of the times is one of joyless urgency,” writes the essayist Marilynne Robinson, who observes that many of us spend our lives “preparing ourselves and our children to be means to inscrutable ends that are utterly not our own.”
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.
Trauma and Recovery
Judith Lewis Herman
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