Calling Bullshit 6.1: Dataviz in the Popular Media

Until recently, the popular media made minimal use of sophisticated data visualization. People have not necessarily had time to hone their bullshit detectors for application to data graphics.
May 3, 2017
Course: INFO 198 / BIOL 106B. University of Washington
Instructors: Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin West
Synopsis: Our world is saturated with bullshit. Learn to detect and defuse it.
The course will be offered as a 1-credit seminar this spring through the Information School at the University of Washington. We aim to expand it to a 3 or 4 credit course for 2017-2018. For those who cannot attend in person, we aim to videotape the lectures this spring and make video clips freely available on the web.
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Video edited by Bum Mook Oh
Music by Chris Zabriskie: Prelude No.7

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Every chart ( every "thing" ) had the attributes of place and time, even if those things are inferred. A pie chart, for instance, is a snapshot in time.