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Summary

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English: Chart of Donald Trump's “False or misleading claims” (The Washington Post) and “False claims” by Daniel Dale (Toronto Star, later CNN)
  • Graph with background orange bars, "False or misleading claims", is from monthly data in the The Washington Post fact checker, and is directly represented.
  • Graph with foreground violet bars, "False claims", is in time segments:
1. Jan 2017–May 2019: from fact checker Daniel Dale's weekly chart published in Toronto Star . Color gradients (violet changing to orange) show the full range of possible "False Statements" resulting when the Toronto Star's weekly data was converted to monthly data. See Technical details below.
2. June 2019: No data available since Daniel Dale was between jobs.
3. July 2019— : from fact checker Daniel Dale's daily chart published on CNN. I grouped the days' values by month—of course requiring no calculation, error bars, or color gradients.

Technical details:

  • Orange values and violet values aren't "stacked" one atop the other. The violet bars are superimposed in front of the orange bars to save space.
  • Beginning with Version 5 (2020-02-26), Toronto Star weekly data for weeks that are split across two months is represented using COLOR GRADIENTS (gradually changing color) in the middle portion of each column of the chart through May 2019. In Version 5, the bottom of the gradient area of the column assumes NO data from such "split" week(s) belongs to that month, and the top of the gradient area assumes ALL data from such "split" week(s) belongs to that month. This new approach graphically shows the full range of possible False Statements for such months, eliminates "error bar" estimation, and avoids algebraic calculations needed to determine the center point for error bars.
  • In Versions 1 through 4: "Interpolation" example (used in Versions 1 through 4 for converting the Toronto Star's weekly figures into monthly figures) In a representative example, the February 2, 2018 week in the Toronto Star indicated 36 false statements. That 7-day week includes 5 days in January and 2 days in February. Thus, that week's contribution to January is simply 36*(5/7)=25.7, and its contribution to February is 36*(2/7)=10.3. Of course, weeks entirely within a single month contribute 100% to that month.
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Author RCraig09
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2017- Donald Trump - graph - false or misleading claims — — — two-graph version of the same data

Source data

  • Data used to form Toronto Star / CNN graph is in collapsible text:
  • Versions 1 through 4:
Click at right to show/hide data for Toronto Star / CNN portions (center of "error bars" in Versions 1-4)

Month False statements
2017-01 35
2017-02 73
2017-03 64
2017-04 50
2017-05 52
2017-06 87
2017-07 124
2017-08 83
2017-09 92
2017-10 160
2017-11 82
2017-12 112
2018-01 105
2018-02 125
2018-03 162
2018-04 131
2018-05 112
2018-06 283
2018-07 298
2018-08 288
2018-09 306
2018-10 747
2018-11 352
2018-12 143
2019-01 241
2019-02 229
2019-03 242
2019-04 222
2019-05 247
2019-06 Not available
2019-07 242 (extrapolated)
2019-08 247
2019-09 280
2019-10 393
2019-11 244
2019-12 209

  • Version 5+:
Click at right to show/hide data for Toronto Star / CNN portions (below, inside, and above Gradient regions in Version 5)

Each three of the following data items are "stacked" (violet, below gradient, below orange) to form a full-height column.
(In the visible chart, the violet columns appear "in front of" the orange columns are not "stacked".)

Month MIN GRADIENT WashPost
Jan '17 27 15 13
Feb '17 57 32 64
Mar '17 57 17 74
Apr '17 47 8 110
May '17 32 29 44
Jun '17 81 20 48
Jul '17 117 18 92
Aug '17 62 31 50
Sep '17 85 47 39
Oct '17 113 66 66
Nov '17 43 62 115
Dec '17 105 39 71
Jan '18 81 33 175
Feb '18 92 60 39
Mar '18 147 69 45
Apr '18 90 61 138
May '18 68 61 120
Jun '18 272 76 186
Jul '18 186 174 93
Aug '18 231 132 116
Sep '18 269 129 201
Oct '18 484 369 352
Nov '18 283 240 344
Dec '18 110 78 82
Jan '19 123 164 450
Feb '19 121 197 167
Mar '19 196 217 140
Apr '19 130 136 421
May '19 234 31 311
Jun '19 674
Jul '19 242 0 302
Aug '19 247 0 280
Sep '19 280 0 359
Oct '19 393 0 763
Nov '19 244 0 656
Dec '19 209 0 475

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Chart of Donald Trump's “False or misleading claims” (The Washington Post) and “False claims” by Daniel Dale (Toronto Star, later CNN)

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