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You do not like numbers? - You just do not know how to cook them!

In addition (and confirmation) to the two recent topics devoted to manipulating figures and graphs, I would like to cite a couple more examples I found in the annual report on information security "IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force® 2008 Trend & Risk Report".

Please note that in no case am I going to initiate holy-wars, all information is provided solely to demonstrate the ability to present figures in the required section.

Episode 1.

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Notice how reliable MS Windows turns out to be, if all the other OSes are summed up across all versions, and Windows is laid out on separate releases ...
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Episode 2.

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Of course, it is profitable to divide into two graphs the “increasing” and “decreasing” countries so that the USA (which dominated all this time) turned out to be:
Firstly, in the group of "positive"
secondly, placed below all “negative” ones, which is psychologically perceived as having a lower value of the compared indicator

Yes, and quite a bit to reduce the scale along the Y axis on the second ...

By the way, how would it look on one graphic:

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So, learn to "cook" the numbers!

PS Pictures are overloaded.

Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/58344/


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