Bad charts from people who should know better


Público, a newspaper:

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The National Council of Education:


Jorge Braga de Macedo, an economist:



FFMS, a foundation who’s mission “is to study, disseminate and debate Portugal’s situation freely and independently”:



The featured image is also from the FFMS. The pie (?) charts are both bad and wrong.

I actually know some of the people who are supposed to approve these things and I deeply respect their (not-datavis related) work. I don’t know if the problem is some work overload, lack of awareness, delegation or bad choice of a design agency. But it’s embarrassing and depressing, even if it means a huge market (the classical example of the shoe salesman in Africa). Hope things improve in the future.