Theory and Practice of Visualization Exercise 2

Imports


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from IPython.display import Image

Violations of graphical excellence and integrity

Find a data-focused visualization on one of the following websites that is a negative example of the principles that Tufte describes in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

Upload the image for the visualization to this directory and display the image inline in this notebook.


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# Add your filename and uncomment the following line:
Image(filename='StockPicture.png')


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Describe in detail the ways in which the visualization violates graphical integrity and excellence:

I do not even know what is going on in this grpah. The x and y axes are not labeled. I wish there was a grid to see the slopes relative to one another. I have no idea what "Open" means. I guess the frame is necessary, but it looks ugly. It's also small... I even tried going to the link for just the image but it was still tiny. I just wish this graph were bigger!