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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# Add your filename and uncomment the following line:
Image(filename='Quartz_death_penalty_chart.0.png')


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

YOUR ANSWER HERE: It gives a historam with many bins over a long length of time, uses different colors to highlight the different methods of execution, and shows how the trends have changed with the time. This shows the periodic spikes in execution rate, as well as the general rise and drops over time. I don't know why you can't see the images. They are uploaded to dirac.