3.6 Graphical integrity: Example & exercise (1)

• Why No 10’s Covid-19 death toll slides don’t tell the whole story
• Figure 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 are taken from a press briefing by the UK government.
  • Q: What’s the intendend message of those graphs? In what way do they violate (or not) principles of graphical integrity/excellence?

Figure 3.1: Global deaths

Figure 3.2: Daily deaths

Figure 3.3: New cases