Reflection

It's actually extremely simple to skew with data. Creating the graph took me around five minutes once I found the data. You plot it once to see the relations you want to highlight. Then, you plot it again but with more customized settings to actually show that difference. Since it's so easy to manipulate data, it's kinda terrifying to know that organizations like Fox News can just skew a graph and show it to impressionable minds watching their channel.

If I were to do it again, I would make it more artistic. I thought that my graph was simple and to the point (there are less "excellent graphics" properties that it violates, so it makes it more believable). Because it doesn't contain any fluff (non-graph-y things), it's believable that it was used in a paper or something. However, my graph isn't eye-catching, I guess the other side is that maybe people wouldn't care to look. In that case, if I were to do it again, I would make my graph have an even more forceful perspective.