The U.S. presidential election did not unfold the way so many predicted it would. We now know some of the reasons why—polling failed—but watching the real-time results on Tuesday night wasn’t just surprising, it was confusing. Predictions swung back and forth, and it was hard to process the information that was coming in. So not only did the data seem wrong, the way we were presenting that data seemed wrong too.
Why It’s So Hard for Us to Visualize Uncertainty
Election night brought a tricky dataviz challenge into focus.
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