50 Awesome And Insightful Graphs, As Featured By The Team At ‘Information Is Beautiful’

Broadly speaking, information that is overly sensational and plays on your emotions is likely to be misunderstood by the person, biased, or even outright wrong. If something sounds too good or bad to be true, it likely is.

Real life is rarely—if ever—black and white. It’s nuanced. It’s subtle. It’s full of shades of gray and complexities that can’t be explained away so easily.

According to the BBC, there are 3 main things to check for when you want to find out whether a source is reliable or not:

1. Check who made the claim. Dig into the person or organization’s background and previous work to see if it’s accurate and unbiased;
2. Check multiple sources to see what conclusions they come to. Having more sources report the same info increases the likelihood that a claim may be true;
3. Check for reliable evidence. Look at the information that the source is using to back up their claims.

“It’s also good to ask yourself if what the source is saying sounds believable. If it appears a bit out of this world or too good to be true, then the chances are that it might well be,” the BBC writes.

Are you big fans of interesting graphs and cool visual data design like we are, dear Pandas? Which of these graphics impressed you the most? What’s something new that you learned today, all thanks to these visuals? Do you typically prefer look at graphs or maps? We’d love to hear your thoughts.

So, if you have a moment, swing by the comments at the bottom of this post to share yours. Oh, and don’t forget to check out the ‘Information Is Beautiful’ site and socials for their latest awesome stuff!