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  是个忙碌的周四。ts的report还在路上，ml的作业，ar的作业纷至沓来。但这一切都不让人出乎意料。真正然我想要写下来的是今天还是被两只猪给起到了。

    子营今天恰好走在mall的后面，我路过的时候，顺带捎她来学校。到了学校快进停车场的时候，她说感受到了突然到来的幸福。我心有感触，是我遇到了小天使啊，如果不是她的到来，我可能又是会胡思乱想一路，然后危险驾驶。
    对，问题就是明知道是狗，怎么还是会影响呢？操他妈的，明明自己啥都没有做，怎么还是会被影响呢？ 在切实一点，我怎么样才能不被影响呢？ 难道总是出来一个子营来帮我走出这块阴影吗？

    我总是爱往平衡的方向去想很多事情。 这里，我想，人生不如意事十之八九，哪能什么都那么顺顺利利的，谁都看你舒服呢？能遇到金鱼等一大批好玩的人，也得遇到一些奇奇怪怪的人才是。 就即便他们有些奇怪的地方，不可否认的是人家也有自己做不到的很多事情。不管别人如何，我自己没有做到忽视这些人也是我的一大缺点吧。

    平时总希望结尾的时候给自己提些目标和要求，今天不用，希望你怎么舒服怎么来，不去尝试理解任何人， 为什么要去融入，为什么要去妥协。相信自己，往紧急而重要的事情上多去努力和思考吧。

希望你记住自己也是年轻人。

Reviewing on Intro& Chapter 1 of How Charts Lie

Last week, I have read the intro and Chapter 1 of How Charts Lie, which is mainly about how charts deceive readers.
This reminds me of my misunderstanding when I read newspapers and magazines.There are several ways:

1. Some pictures are very good-looking and make people feel pleasing to the eye, so readers will not question their authenticity, such as beautiful population density maps. Additionally,  there are some topic articles with very explosive information, and people rarely question whether the based data is true or false.

2. Some figures may be selected from the main theme of the article to present data. This is to mislead the reader with data. An excellent data visualization chart really makes people understand the meaning of the article in an instant. In the fast-paced reading rhythm, the articles are all about the subject. Combined with the trend or comparison of the chart, the reader can easily accept the idea of ​​the article. They will even be proud of their speed of receiving knowledge and information. However, it is a trick that readers will choose not to read the reasoning of the article, which is both time-consuming and energy-consuming and just read the easy charts instead.  This situation is extremely difficult for readers to overcome and we should be alert.

3, Some charts do not match its title. Basically, the chart and the main idea are two things. these operations of hanging sheep's heads and selling dog meat will make the article misunderstood. As a reporter, long-term inpatient and restless work will make people more and more impetuous and lose confidence.

Here is an example: the title of the webpage is that "Transparency: Which Countries Invest the Most in Alternative Energy?"  but the graph is mainly telling the production instead of the investment.   we should set up a good habit to report the truth although this unmatching happens everywhere nowadays.

In short, after reading this book, I know more about some frameworks and systematically understand the nature of data and charts and the operation methods of them. I am more clear about the storytelling with data and charts, and it is no longer a matter of swallowing since When students of the MSBA program will indeed fall into the strange circle of beautiful drawing and self-satisfaction when they are doing the project. However, I knew that the data is sometimes used as an adjunct to evidence, not the real subject. In other words, data can lie, and there is selective transparency existing before I read the book. But there was no evidence at that time, and one cannot say too arbitrarily that the data is wrong.

Indeed, charts can lie, but we also need to be able to reveal their lies scientifically and have the courage to significantly improve these charts.