How to Display Data Badly
- Author(s):
- Wainer, Howard
- Publication Year:
- 1982
- Report Number:
- RR-82-35
- Source:
- ETS Research Report
- Document Type:
- Report
- Page Count:
- 60
- Subject/Key Words:
- Data Analysis, Graphs, Tables (Data), Visual Aids
Abstract
Methods for displaying data badly have been under development for many years, and a wide variety of interesting and inventive schemes have emerged. Presented here is a synthesis yielding the twelve most powerful techniques that seem to underlie many of the realizations found in the literature. These twelve (the dirty dozen) are identified and illustrated. (60pp.)
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