Tableau Public: Who Lies The Most? The 2016 Presidential Election

Michael Sandberg's Data Visualization Blog

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Readers:

Back on July 24, 2016, I blogged on my data visualization web site a stacked bar chart titled Who Lies More?, created by Robert Mann, answering the question which politicians lie more. His chart was based on data from PolitiFact.

I have received a lot of site traffic based on posting Robert’s chart. I was interested in developing a data visualization for Tableau Public, so I went out and extracted fresh data from PolitiFact.com for the Executive Branch (e.g., President Obama, VP Joe Biden), our congressional leaders on both sides of the aisle, and the five major political parties who have selected a candidate to run for president (and vice president).

For my Tableau workbook, all fact counts were taken from the Politifact Web Site starting September 9, 2016. The date each candidate’s facts were extracted can be seen when you hover over a bubble on the Who Lies…

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