A conversation about designing better visualizations —and spotting misleading ones

I talked to the good folks at Discourse a while ago. If you enjoy in-depth journalism, you could consider following them. They've just published an edited version of our conversation, keeping just the good parts.

We discussed several takeaways from my Visual Trumpery lecture series and some of my to-go sources for great news visualization. Here's the most timely part, considering that ProPublica has just announced their partnership with several data scientists: