Disinformation Visualization: How to lie with datavis - Response

Mushon Zer-Aviv's Disinformation Visualization: How to lie with datavis brought my attention on how some people could alter data for a result (in terms of their own purposes). To be more specific, those people would create a "lie" in the data, either for legibility for the sake of (I would say) "balanced" information, or for one's bias that can lead to the misrepresentation of information from the data; this applies to anything that can end up fooling someone, including in photography (or identification), since Erol Morris stated in "What's in a Name" that some people falsified their information about themselves in the 1800's when photographs weren't used at the time for identification. Falifying information is something I can't stand these days since altering information in data can be easy, while people who would look at the altered data take it as it is, without any second thoughts. If we have more conscience over the data we see, we can be more judgmental if there's any false information (although, this is my thought on this).

Errol Morris' "What's in a Name (part 2)" - Response

In Errol Morris' "What's in a Name (part 2)", he goes in-depth on how a photograph of a person became important (or easier) for identification. In the 1800's, identification was done with words (and only words) on paper, the identifiers would have to take the person's identification as it is; although, those kind of identifications can be "forged" by just lying about what the person is. The photography was later used (along with measurements and traits of a person's body) in the 1840's or so for better identification; it was helpful for police departments when they need to document/find a criminal. However, on May 1, 1903, a young man named Will West, who was changed for manslaughter, shared the same name of a Fort Leavenworth prisoner; but what's surprising is that they also share the same look and expression, and they both (almost) have the same measurements. The only difference the two Will's have are their fingerprints; because of that, fingerprinting became more common (with measuring being less used) for sake that this situation will never happen again.

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