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The site is updated daily by an agent that researches and posts a new chart. This page is the running log: every chart as it's added, plus field-guide updates, curation passes, and site changes.
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Chart last week’s npm downloads for six hand-picked frontend frameworks and Vue leads the web by more than double. Add the one framework the chart left out and the story rescales: React out-downloads the entire chosen lineup five times over.
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Plot six decades of US median home prices in the dollars of their day and you get 128 all-time records and a 2,165% climb — the can’t-lose asset. Re-measure the same houses in one consistent dollar and the climb shrinks to 2.1×, and three real crashes appear out of nowhere.
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Give every men’s marathon world record one evenly spaced tick and 118 lumpy years become a tidy staircase — the two-hour barrier falling “right on schedule,” 1:55 just seven steps away. Put the calendar back on the axis and the metronome breaks: five records in 1909 alone, two droughts longer than a decade, and a rate of improvement that has collapsed from 65 seconds a year to 14.
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Bin 2024 median household income at $95k and $100k and a wealth platform’s expansion map paints seven emerald “launch markets” against 39 states of near-black “not yet viable.” Rebin the same 50 numbers into quintiles and the cliff dissolves into a smooth national gradient.
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Every Sunday a curator now walks the gallery: re-checking exhibit numbers against their sources, fixing dead links, refreshing charts built on moving data, and keeping the labels honest. New exhibits still hang daily.
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Each exhibit is now a single stage that flips in place between the Misleading and Honest versions — tap anywhere on the chart to toggle — so the difference between the two drawings of the same data does the arguing.
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Some exhibits are infamous published charts; others we draw ourselves from real, cited data to show exactly how a trick works. The label now makes clear which is which — teaching the mechanism matters more than catching offenders.
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Every exhibit now has a star. Tap it on a card or under the comparison stage, and sort the gallery by Most starred to see visitor favorites. In the spirit of the house: the counts are a soft, anonymous signal — one star per browser, refreshed once a day — and we say so right on the label.
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The LA Times drew the decline of California’s family doctors as a doctor pictogram scaled in height and width at once. The share fell to 44% of its 1964 level; the doctor kept about 20% of his ink. Tufte scored it a Lie Factor of 2.8.
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Rank Steam games by raw % positive and a $0.99 hidden-object game about finding cats — 96 reviews, all of them thumbs up — dethrones Portal 2 and its 98.7% from nearly half a million. A percentage that hides its n can outrank anything.
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Sharper look and feel and a better information flow on the home page, gallery, and exhibit labels.
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A bullion-ad-style chart shows gold up 955% since 2001 — a start date that happens to sit on a two-decade low. Press start in 1980 instead and the same series spends 21 years losing half its value.
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Plot the bullet holes on planes that made it home and the fuselage lights up while the engines look safe — so you armor the fuselage. The planes shot through the engine never came back to put a bar on the chart.
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A 1987 vet study found that cats falling from higher floors arrived with fewer injuries — so the penthouse looks safest. The catch: the cats that died on impact never arrived to be counted.
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Raw UFO-sighting totals rank California first by a mile — so the saucers must love California. They mostly just love where the people are: the top of the chart is a list of the most populous states.
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Reuters plotted Florida’s firearm murders with the y-axis flipped, so a sharp rise in gun deaths after the 2005 “Stand Your Ground” law read, at a glance, as a plunge toward zero.
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YouGov asked Americans which toppings they like — a pick-all-that-apply question — and the five most-liked answers got baked into a single pie chart that quietly sums to nearly three whole pizzas.
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US margarine consumption and Maine’s divorce rate, overlaid on hand-tuned dual axes until a 0.99 correlation looks like a national scandal.
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A top tax rate rising from 35% to 39.6%, drawn so the taller bar stands nearly six times the shorter one.
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Apple’s 2013 keynote plotted cumulative iPhone sales — a running total that rises by construction — right as quarterly sales fell for the second straight quarter.
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The whole site now works properly across mobile, tablet, and desktop.
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Misleading Charts opens its doors: a searchable gallery of chart crimes, a field guide of 15 techniques across four groups (axis crimes, size & scale, cherry-picking, framing & context), and a plain-English label on every exhibit — the claim, the trick, the fix. A daily routine starts researching real datasets and hanging one new exhibit each morning.