Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio(tuftesrazor.scienceux.org)
66 points by s4074433 | 30 comments
An interactive scrolling guide explaining Edward Tufte's data-ink ratio by stripping elements from a cluttered chart one piece at a time.
#charts on Hacker News
3 stories tagged charts, newest first.
I spent 50 hours drawing a line graph(dougmacdowell.com)
643 points by dougdude3339 | 98 comments
Doug MacDowell's project essay about spending 50 hours designing and drawing a single line graph data visualization.
Friends don't let friends make bad graphs(github.com)
440 points by ZunarJ5 | 79 comments
GitHub repository explaining types of data visualizations to avoid and why they are misleading, with R scripts and example data.