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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Image(filename='food-oil-graph.png')


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

YOUR ANSWER HERE

This is a graph from CNN. This graph is "bad" because it has no unit labels for either axis and not even any numbers written on the y axis. You can barely understand what the graph is trying to tell you.


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