WTF Visualizations

Visualizations that make no sense. For a discussion of what is wrong with a particular visualization, tweet at us @WTFViz. Submit a WTFViz you found.

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Sticking your neck out.

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Presumably generated based on the relative diameters of thr circles, not their relative areas. It’s subtle but still misleading. 

From Women in the Workplace 2021 published by McKinsey & Company. 

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Fun activity: draw the rest of the circular pie chart in a way that makes the chart areas match the percentages

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Time dilation

Spiraling out of control.

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the drying time could be literally anything and the "easy to dry" arrow exceeds the claimed 85% decrease by a lot

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Great Britain (Wielka brytania) got to have its very own right Y axis.

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trying to understand the salary range for my profession, why is this a bar chart?

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one description matches the bar, the other totally doesn't

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Primary election… result?

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Linear time is an illusion. Your weeks are just gumballs in a vending machine.

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In which 23% is visibly larger than 33%

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Red n Green

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Is this random clipart, or an actual representation of the data discussed in the article? How do the bars and pie slices relate to each other? WTF is going on here?

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http://www.portaltransparencia.gov.br/funcoes/10-saude?ano=2021

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No scale and misleading advertising. (Libro.fm does not share 50% of its profits with bookstores). Pretty sad when their whole marketing campaign is how they are supposed to help indies more than amazon. 

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The X-Axis is supposed to be backwards, right?

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I asked a coworker how much overtime her salaried staff worked last year. I got this. In addition to graphic terrible-ness, all the numbers are entered as text.