arxivcs.HCcs.CY2026-07-12
How Data Narratives Go Wrong: A Taxonomy of Issues Across the Data Communication Process
Yu Fu, Jiawei Zhou, Sichen Jin, Munmun De Choudhury, Cindy Xiong Bearfield, John Stasko
Data narratives increasingly shape public understanding, but their failures are rarely just isolated factual errors or deceptive charts. Instead, they emerge through a broader meaning-making process in which quantitative evidence is transformed into claims, representations, and a…