Any chart can say anything now. So how do we keep visualization honest?
Duke sociologist Kieran Healy's Ihaka Lecture argues trust in charts was already fraying before AI made it trivial to draw any conclusion from any data. The real problem isn't skill; it's that a good graphic is a social contract between maker and reader. Healy asks what that contract looks like once generation tools filter through everything. Worth an hour if you make charts for a living.