James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti, "Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World" (W. W. Norton, 2021)
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How Data Can Be Used for Positive Things
We take our weather forecasts for granted. And in this essay, we draw those parallels between the scepticism that the early weatherfore pronfessors face and the sceptics that climb as scientists. We're allso confident in what we're saying because, you know, we want people to act on this book. But can it be also misrepresented? I mean, of course. And we can easily manipulate the data and the visual way that it's shown to tell a very different story. This ise always long been the challenge with am particuarly with maps actually, because people always trust maps. You know, one of the final am kind of paragraphs in the book is reflecting
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