The Lies (Product): Why You Shouldn't Work Hard

I decided not to lie with my initial data, but only with its visualization. Aggregating information in interesting ways led to very misleading charts. For one, I used select subsets of the (already small) sampling of projects to skew my results in pointed ways. I also flipped axes to make things seem more prominent than they were, cut off graphs to show only what I wanted users to see, and generally sum the information in meaningless ways.

To view the charts, click "See Data" floating in the top left. Each chart involves a particular lie, and to see how each chart is generated, click the link in the "Dataset" section.