{"id":20512,"date":"2026-03-02T18:45:36","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20512"},"modified":"2026-03-02T18:45:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T02:45:39","slug":"how-to-make-your-chart-really-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/03\/02\/how-to-make-your-chart-really-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make your chart really scary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Use a &#8220;cumulative&#8221; count rather than an incidence rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"837\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-345-837x1024.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-345-837x1024.png 837w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-345-491x600.png 491w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-345-768x939.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-345-221x270.png 221w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-345.png 981w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 837px) 100vw, 837px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For reference<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/grapher\/measles-cases-and-death-rate\">Rate of measles cases and deaths in the United States, 1919 to 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"979\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-346.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-346.png 979w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-346-600x419.png 600w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-346-768x537.png 768w, https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-content\/uploads\/image-346-386x270.png 386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 979px) 100vw, 979px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use a &#8220;cumulative&#8221; count rather than an incidence rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-practice","category-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20515,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions\/20515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}