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='china_gdp_year-on-year_change.png')


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

-Data is very clear -Not too many tick marks, spaced well. -data-ink ratio is high -clear title, I know what I am looking at. labeled axes. -Can see change in data over time.


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