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='150420092841-premarket-stocks-trading-780x439.png')









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

YOUR ANSWER HERE: I actually had trouble finding any data on these sites. This graph lacks labels, the y axis has no units to define what is being measured over time (presumably the price of stock) and the design is bland, making use of essentially one color. I don't know why you can't see the images. They are uploaded to dirac.