A number of important elections take place in Germany this year 🇩🇪🗳️. This includes five state elections, with around 16 million eligible voters 👥. Graphics about polls, forecasts, and election results are appearing everywhere 📊 — but be careful ⚠️: many of them are misleading. Sometimes they are presented sloppily, sometimes they are deliberately manipulated 🎭.

In our newest podcast episode, we spoke about this with the visualization expert Christoph Kinkeldey 🎙️. He explains how graphics can deceive us 🪄, how to create good visualizations 📈, and why the perfect chart does not really exist 🤔.