{"id":9,"date":"2026-02-06T13:21:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/merry\/blog\/points\/read-between-the-lines-decoding-charts-and-graphs-in-the-news\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T13:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T18:21:56","slug":"read-between-the-lines-decoding-charts-and-graphs-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"points","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/merry\/points\/read-between-the-lines-decoding-charts-and-graphs-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Between the Lines: Decoding Charts and Graphs in the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this workshop, we saw how data visualizations\/charts can be misrepresented and lead to false interpretations. Most interestingly, we looked at a chart created for unemployment rates during President Barack Obama&#8217;s 2011 reign, where a news outlet misrepresented data by incorrectly plotting points on the chart to indicate rates increased. This workshop is extremely beneficial as it makes you think twice before trusting a chart and the data associated with it. As an MIS major, it is imperative that I learn how to manage data and the stories it can tell, as well as understanding stories developed by others in order to avoid misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30864,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","points","type-points","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/merry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/merry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/merry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/points"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/merry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/merry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/merry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/points\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/merry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}