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.


In [3]:
# Add your filename and uncomment the following line:
Image(filename='TaP2.png')


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

It is unclear what the numbers are representing. The bar graph is skewed to make the difference seem much larger than it really is. There is no label of the y axis. There is little structure. The graph does not really tell the truth of the data. The graphic shows the data out of context. There is no clear purpose.