2006-03-14: Article on Chart Junk: "Ice Age, or How to Avoid Frightening your Readers by Hiding the Key Data Point"
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The question as always is - what are you graphing? What things are being compared? If you draw a graph to facilitate the comparison, you can clarify the text. If you don’t, the text, the truth and your credibility will suffer.
[Wiley, 2006]
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[Wiley, 2006] Viveka Weiley, Ice Age, or How to Avoid Frightening your Readers by Hiding the Key Data Point, Created at: January 14, 2006, Retrieved at: March 14, 2006. http://chartjunk.karmanaut.com/