Theory and Practice of Visualization Exercise 1

Imports


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from IPython.display import Image

Graphical excellence and integrity

Find a data-focused visualization on one of the following websites that is a positive 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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Image(filename='silver-feature-unpredictable-21.png')


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Image(filename='silver-feature-unpredictable-1.png')


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

These graphs use a consistent style and labelling, so comparisons are easily drawn. The color code is easy to see and highlights the important point of the graphs. None of the chart elements cover any of the data. Both graphs use the same scale. While the line width is larger than it ideally should be, since the graph is displaying averages rather than exact points, it is not a big deal.