How to lie with statistics

Monday 29 January at 18:00 to 19:00

InfoLab C75

Polina

EASY

"Reality can be whatever I want" is painfully true when it comes to statistics and their representation, especially in the media.\n\n

We will take you through examples of mischievous manipulations and misleading graphs, exploring ways to make your pretty graph help you get what you want out of your data. This session is a cautionary tale about the evils of data presentation with a sprinkle of comically bad graphs.

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