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='PythonImage.png')









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

This visualization is trying to show that New York and Philadelphia expierenced historically high amounts of snow in March, 2015 compared to March in past years. So The graph uses a scatterplot to show how high snowfall was in march for all the years dating back to 1880. They place a horizontal line through this years month to make it easy for the viewer to distinguish how much higher it is compared to the majority of other years.