I realised just how deliberate you have to be in order to misrepresent your data - it really didn't come naturally to me - I'm realising just how much talent Fox News must have in their ranks to consistently produce such quality, astounding levels of data misrepresentation. It's not something I could do out of sheer carelessness - I'm more used to double-checking that I have my data labelled correctly and the values are correct than go out of my way to break graph-making tools and make extra effort into "polishing" the graph.
Looking back, I see a few more opportunities for data misrepresentation. For example, skipping certain days without reflecting that fact using a blank bar, or just plain misrepresenting the height of the bars. Perhaps it would also have been interesting to do a 3D version of the graph, maybe with the top-down view to really exaggerate the growth of the numbers, and to further obfuscate the relative sense of value increment.
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