Definitions
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- noun
unnecessary ordistracting visual elements included incharts andgraphs
Etymologies
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Examples
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This is from a blog called chartjunk, which I am infinitely more interested in now that I've found it.
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Marshall described "chartjunk" as additional graphics not related to the data in a quest to make the chart more aesthetically pleasing.
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"chartjunk" that pretties up information without giving an understanding of why it's useful.
GigaOM Liz Gannes 2010
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They coach us towards bullet points, chartjunk, "meeting by template" and a thousand other "deaths by PowerPoint."
Is PowerPoint good or evil? dave gray 2005
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But other times, the reader can be overwhelmed by too much irrelevant information or, in one of Mr. Tufte's favorite terms, "chartjunk."
NYT > Home Page By NOAM COHEN 2010
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Compare this with the depiction at chartjunk, which presents the same data, but this time with a scale that […]
Freakonomics 2008
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Compare this with the depiction at chartjunk, which presents the same data, but this time with a scale that […]
Freakonomics 2008
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Compare this with the depiction at chartjunk, which presents the same data, but this time with a scale that […]
Freakonomics 2008
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Compare this with the depiction at chartjunk, which presents the same data, but this time with a scale that […]
Freakonomics 2008
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Compare this with the depiction at chartjunk, which presents the same data, but this time with a scale that […]
Freakonomics 2008
bkerr commented on the word chartjunk
Wikipedia sez: "a term for unnecessary or confusing visual elements in charts and graphs."
May 5, 2007