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Why Chart Junk is More Useful than Plain Graphs
- tptacek 17y agoWait a minute. Tufte doesn't like the plain graph either. He wants you to maximize data ink, to plot more than a single series of data, to be as multidimensional as possible. He wants you to be able to synthesize lots of different stories out of the image, including ideas that weren't even evident to the author of the image. Put a cute bunny picture on top of 10 line graphs, and keep the other 10 totally bare, and the bunny graphs will be more memorable. Does that mean we should be putting bunnies on our infographics?