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Chartjunk

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 11, 2005 03:09 AM
These charts do look useful, but they contain lots of what Edward Tufte[1] would describe as chartjunk. I would suggest the JPGraph authors limit these interior decoration features, thus encouraging the user to maximize the data-ink of the charts.

[1] http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

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