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Friday, April 24, 2015

Anna Flagg & Moiz Syed: A lesson from the New York Times on how to mislead on Gaza with numbers

On July 31, 2014, the New York Times published an interactive article about the Israeli assault that was underway in Gaza. The conflict had claimed 1,472 lives by the publication date: 1,408 of them Palestinian, 64 Israeli.

In an expertly designed data visualization, the Times guided us through its own version of events, which boils down to: Hamas started it, and Israel responded in self-defense. Data from the last three flare-ups is included in the same way, gently suggesting to readers that this is a pattern.

What follows is a breakdown of some ways that design can be misused to tell a biased story. This New York Times article reminds us that design is just as much an editorial tool as it is a tool of aesthetics, usability and user experience.

Full Article
http://mondoweiss.net/2015/04/lesson-mislead-numbers

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