## How Many Stories Can Your Data Tell? How the way we represent data can change what we think the data is saying Allow me to paint a scene: you get a new dataset and need to explore it, so you don’t change a single number, but you make three different visualizations. If you showed those visualizations to three different people, they'd likely walk away with three slightly different impressions of what the data means. That is one of the things I find most fascinating about data visualization. We often talk about visualization as if it were simply the final step in a data-analysis pipeline:…