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Edward R. Tufte. into print . Dark grid lines are chartjunk . They carry no informa- tion , clutter up the graphic , and generate graphic activity unrelated to data information . This grid camouflages the profile of the data in the age ...
Edward R. Tufte. into print . Dark grid lines are chartjunk . They carry no informa- tion , clutter up the graphic , and generate graphic activity unrelated to data information . This grid camouflages the profile of the data in the age ...
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Edward R. Tufte. The space occupied by the doubled grid lines consumes 18 per- cent of the area of this otherwise most ingenious design , a “ multi- window plot . " Optical white dots appear at the intersections of the grid lines . ( The ...
Edward R. Tufte. The space occupied by the doubled grid lines consumes 18 per- cent of the area of this otherwise most ingenious design , a “ multi- window plot . " Optical white dots appear at the intersections of the grid lines . ( The ...
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... grid lines in the published version are irreg- ularly spaced , keyed to significant events . The data - based grid is a shrewd graphical device , serving rather than fighting with the data . It is a technique underused in contemporary ...
... grid lines in the published version are irreg- ularly spaced , keyed to significant events . The data - based grid is a shrewd graphical device , serving rather than fighting with the data . It is a technique underused in contemporary ...
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Graphical Excellence | 13 |
Graphical Integrity | 53 |
Sources of Graphical Integrity and Sophistication | 79 |
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