“BEAUTIFUL MAPS, AND THE LIES THEY TELL”

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“BEAUTIFUL MAPS, AND THE LIES THEY TELL”

February 2014

What we're reading: Provocation

The head of data and analytics at free running app RunKeeper looks at what went wrong with a set of maps created using people's publicised running routes.

For more on lying with data, read this guest post, “How to lie with data” by Mushon Zer-Aviv, on our new Visualising Information for Advocacy blog.

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