Which candidate lied more at the first debate?

What is this?

Presented here are zoomed-out images of a transcript from the first presidential debate.  On the left are the statements from one candidate, labeled "A", and the right side shows the statements from the other candidate, labeled "B".  Factual statements are highlighted in green;  lies are highlighted in red.  Opinions, commentary, accusations, insinuations and others are unmarked.  Which candidate did more lying, and which candidate told the truth more often?

But I can't read the words!

Actually, that's the point.  When fact-checkers do their work, they describe their findings using more words.  Then it gets harder to grasp how much is right or wrong, because then people have to spend a lot of time reading more words, about other words.  What this project does is create an image and let people get an understanding by looking only at the color.  With a visual image, taking up only one screen, it lets people start to understand in terms of proportions and relative comparisons.

Take a guess 

So which one is Trump, and which one is Clinton?

The Answer

Candidate A is Trump and Candidate B is Clinton.  The source document (updated slightly with more facts and lies) is here: Debate 1.

Note: when viewing the source document in a browser, the highlighting and comments (which hold the references) DO NOT show up; to see them, download the document (there should be a download link near the top-right corner) and they should show up in your document editor.  The file format is OpenOffice (.odt).  Word might present an error message or two but seems to load the document correctly.

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How were these created?

CNN Money has a neat piece: How Donald Trump made fact-checking great again