critique

misleading chart

Chart whose form leads to a false reading of the data.

graphique trompeur

aussi : graphique fallacieux

Graphique dont la forme induit une lecture fausse des données.

Classification

critique

Attestation and synonyms

French term: Cairo, How Charts Lie, 2019

deceptive visualization; Pandey et al., How Deceptive are Deceptive Visualizations?, CHI 2015 ↗
misleading visualization; Lisnic et al., Misleading Beyond Visual Tricks: How People Actually Lie with Charts, CHI 2023 ↗

Sources (4)

3 occurrences in the corpus

Cite this entry

Stable addresshttps://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/misleading-chart.html

ReferenceTaudière Adrien. 2026. misleading chart. In Visualization Vocabulary, version 1.0.0. IdEst. https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/misleading-chart.html

BibTeX

@incollection{taudiere2026-misleading-chart,
  author    = {Taudière, Adrien},
  title     = {misleading chart},
  booktitle = {Visualization Vocabulary},
  year      = {2026},
  version   = {1.0.0},
  publisher = {IdEst},
  url       = {https://dataviz.adrientaudiere.com/en/term/misleading-chart.html},
  note      = {CC0 1.0}
}

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