Reflection

I really enjoyed making this project and found it fun to intentionally misrepresent data, and doing research on misleading graphs used by mainstream media was especially interesting and enlightening. I find it incredible that popular media outlets systematically create graphs like these to show a point in a dishonest way.

If would do this project differently, I would have made the graphic design of the bubble graph more compelling; I find it neat but a little bland so I would have tried to play around with different colors and styles, for instance using more 3-dimensional shapes or overlapping them. I also would be interested to see how it would look if the circles were more true to the reported data or more extremely abstracted. I think my graph strikes a nice middle point of being misleading without being too obvious but perhaps making the graph more misleading would have been an interesting approach.