Many of the charts that I see being passed around on social media because they’re confusing or misleading are also beautiful. They seem to have been created by people with great graphic design skills, but who’ve had little or no training in data visualization. Such designers may have been taught that "a visually engaging or aesthetically pleasing design is a good design" since this is certainly true for most types of graphics, but they don’t seem to fully realize that charts are a special type of graphic with a slew of additional design considerations beyond just aesthetic appeal.