How to Display Data Badly
- 1 May 1984
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The American Statistician
- Vol. 38 (2) , 137-147
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.1984.10483186
Abstract
Methods for displaying data badly have been developing for many years, and a wide variety of interesting and inventive schemes have emerged. Presented here is a synthesis yielding the 12 most powerful techniques that seem to underlie many of the realizations found in practice. These 12 (the dirty dozen) are identified and illustrated.Keywords
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