Jonathan Gray has started a tread to capture the unfolding stories around the #PanamaPapers leak: Best examples of data journalism and computational journalism projects around tax?.
You are at the disadvantage with these visualizations because you don’t have access to the underlying data.
It’s akin to accepting an accountant’s summary of accounts without being able to examine the details on which those summaries are based.
You may be comfortable with putting that much faith in a summary, but I’m not.
That’s not a slur on the reporters or even accountants.
You know the motto:
In God We Trust, With All Others, Verify.
Any questions?