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.


In [2]:
Image(filename='infograph1.png')


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

The information is clear and labeled well. Different colored lines make the two data types distinct. Its data-ink ratio is pretty good, although there may be a bit too many vertical grid lines. The x and y scales are linear, making understanding the data easier. Anybody who reads this would agree with "Custodial Mothers Are More Likely To Be Poor."