Common Mythconceptions

“If you swallow chewing gum, it takes seven years to digest!” 😮

Actually… that’s completely untrue. Gum is indigestible and passes straight through your system.

This was one of the 114 myths I explored in my latest #MakeoverMonday visualisation.

Our theme was inspired by the brilliant Common Mythconceptions chart from Information is Beautiful by David McCandless.

In a world flooded with misinformation, visual storytelling is a powerful way to cut through the noise and present facts over fiction.

For this project, I used a tree diagram to display myths hierarchically. I created my tree diagram using this incredible tool by LaDataViz. I colour-coded and grouped the myths by themes. I also sized the outer circles based on the volume of Google searches. That’s because some myths are more popular than others!

Through this project, I learned:

🍌 You can’t get high from banana peels

⏱ The “5 Second Rule” is a complete myth, because germs don’t wait

💧 Not everyone needs to drink eight glasses of water a day

Dashboard

My final dashboard can be accessed here.

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Written by Joel Reed. Read more of my blogs.