In this second golden age of data design, digital affordances enable the news media to share occasionally misleading charts about COVID-19. Examining data visualizations about COVID-19 highlights three ways that charts can mislead viewers: (a) by displaying inadequate data, (b) by manipulating scales and visual distance, and (c) by omitting contextual labels needed to fully understand a chart’s message. This article provides takeaways for technical communicators about including and displaying adequate data, representing numbers consistently, and humanizing COVID-19’s effects.

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歪曲 COVID-19：在数据设计的第二个黄金时代对图表撒谎

在数据设计的第二个黄金时代，数字可供性使新闻媒体能够偶尔分享有关 COVID-19 的误导性图表。检查有关 COVID-19 的数据可视化突出了图表可能误导观众的三种方式：(a) 显示不充分的数据，(b) 操纵比例和视觉距离，以及 (c) 省略完全理解图表信息所需的上下文标签。本文为技术传播者提供了有关包含和显示足够数据、一致表示数字以及使 COVID-19 的影响人性化的要点。