I really like your angle and humor on using extrapolation to distort the data. Also, I agree with your reflection that it does take some deliberate and skilled Fox News effort to lie to viewers using data. I think some steps you can take to further your piece would be to take even more data points to make your graph even more "realistic". Something like slept 3hrs, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3......5.5hrs that gives the illusion of a lot of time and increase, but it really is only a max difference of two hours.
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mzhong1
Posted on 2015-11-03 00:04:02 -0500.
I thought this was a really amusing and creative graphic! The relation to confirmational bias is a great one, and someting I didn't really think that much about. I agree with Sarah that a way of improving this piece would be the make the increments of hours smaller to appear more realistic, which would then be extrapolated upwards until it hits an absurd curve. Also, maybe keeping the font uniform, because that just gets a little confusing to look at, and also slightly jarring, which I think draws attention away from the data being presented and the rest of the graphic
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Roger Liu
Posted on 2015-11-09 21:58:11 -0500.
I thought the data set you chose to extrapolate was well chosen and humorous, and I really liked the various graphical elements you used to highlight how you extrapolated the data. The piece was clean and cohesive, and presented very nicely. I personally would have liked to see some motion in the piece, but barring that I think that everything was done excellently.
I really like your angle and humor on using extrapolation to distort the data. Also, I agree with your reflection that it does take some deliberate and skilled Fox News effort to lie to viewers using data. I think some steps you can take to further your piece would be to take even more data points to make your graph even more "realistic". Something like slept 3hrs, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3......5.5hrs that gives the illusion of a lot of time and increase, but it really is only a max difference of two hours.
I thought this was a really amusing and creative graphic! The relation to confirmational bias is a great one, and someting I didn't really think that much about. I agree with Sarah that a way of improving this piece would be the make the increments of hours smaller to appear more realistic, which would then be extrapolated upwards until it hits an absurd curve. Also, maybe keeping the font uniform, because that just gets a little confusing to look at, and also slightly jarring, which I think draws attention away from the data being presented and the rest of the graphic
I thought the data set you chose to extrapolate was well chosen and humorous, and I really liked the various graphical elements you used to highlight how you extrapolated the data. The piece was clean and cohesive, and presented very nicely. I personally would have liked to see some motion in the piece, but barring that I think that everything was done excellently.
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