Graphs Don’t Lie: How to Lie with Graphs and Get Away With It…

Bite-Size Stats Book 2 · Lee Baker
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**Graphs Don’t Lie: How to Lie with Graphs and Get Away With It…**


Discover the hidden world of misleading graphs with "Graphs Don’t Lie: How to Lie with Graphs and Get Away With It…" This book is your warm, friendly guide to understanding how graphs and charts can be manipulated—and how you can spot these tricks before they deceive you.


Ever wondered how a pie chart can make it look like 193% of people support a candidate, or how a graph can show that 34 is smaller than 14? In this engaging and humorous book, award-winning statistician Lee Baker reveals the secrets behind graphical lies and pictorial deceits. You'll learn how numbers can be twisted to mislead and misinform, whether in political campaigns, media reports, or corporate presentations.


Packed with real-world examples, "Graphs Don’t Lie" uncovers how politicians, the press, and corporations use graphs and charts to deceive their audiences. From inflated gun death statistics to misleading anti-abortion figures, this book shows you the techniques used to distort the truth and how to see through them.


**Benefits of this book:**

- **Spot misleading graphs:** Understand the common techniques used to manipulate visual data.

- **Evaluate data critically:** Gain insights into how data can be misrepresented for political or commercial gain.

- **Enhance your data literacy:** Become a savvy consumer of statistical information.

- **Enjoy a humorous and engaging read:** Complex concepts are made accessible and entertaining.


Written in plain English and perfect for beginners, "Graphs Don’t Lie" combines humor with instruction to keep you informed and entertained. This book will change the way you look at graphs and charts, making you more critical and discerning.


Get ready to dive into the world of data visualization tricks, learn to spot fake graphs, and become skilled at understanding graphs and detecting data deceit. By identifying misleading data, you’ll become an expert in recognizing graph tricks and data misinterpretation. Be aware of media statistics deception and corporate data manipulation, and understand political graph tricks. Boost your statistical literacy and learn to see through data presentation lies.


Don't be misled by deceptive visuals. Grab your copy of "Graphs Don’t Lie" today and start seeing through the lies!

Ratings and reviews

4.4
21 reviews
A Google user
January 27, 2019
Decent short read. Not a fan of the particular tone and style of writing, but it is entertaining and easy to follow. Content-wise, it's also technically simple and easy to understand. The things mentioned in the book is something people should keep in mind when reading a graph. It was worth reading.
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Tarciso Filho
October 27, 2018
The book is easy to understand and quite short, but it doesn't make it any less important than any other on the segment. Highlighting recent and scandalous cases of deception, the author brings to attention the real goal of the traditional media, corrupting the facts in an unfair, biased and often untruthful manner.
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Afiq Ismail
October 10, 2019
Easy to understand. Simple English and examples were used. Simpler to understand for non-native speaker.
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About the author

Lee Baker is an award-winning software creator that lives behind a keyboard in a darkened room. Illuminated only by the light from his monitor, he aspires to finding the light switch.

With decades of experience in science, statistics and artificial intelligence, he has a passion for telling stories with data. Despite explaining it a dozen times, his mother still doesn’t understand what he does for a living.

Insisting that data analysis is much simpler than we think it is, he authors friendly, easy-to-understand books that teach the fundamentals of data analysis and statistics.

His mission is to unleash your inner data ninja!

As the CEO of Chi-Squared Innovations, one day he’d like to retire to do something simpler, like crocodile wrestling.

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