Theory and Practice of Visualization Exercise 2

Imports


In [1]:
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.


In [2]:
# Add your filename and uncomment the following line:
Image(filename='graph2.jpg')


Out[2]:

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

Upon first examination it is clear the graph is made with the intention of being misleading. On the bars 6,000,000 is three times the size of 7,066,000. To make matters worse there are tick marks on the side but they do not have any labels on the y axis.