file:///home/nolan/Stat133/Graphics/wainer/wainer.html1 of 7 09/23/05 10:21How to Display Data BadlyHoward Wainer’s Dirty DozenThe plots and the list of dozen items presented here are from "How to Display DataBadly", Howard Wainer, " The American Statistician, May 1984.1. Show as little data as possible2. Hide the data you do showfile:///home/nolan/Stat133/Graphics/wainer/wainer.html2 of 7 09/23/05 10:213. Ignore the visual metaphor 4. Only order mattersfile:///home/nolan/Stat133/Graphics/wainer/wainer.html3 of 7 09/23/05 10:215. Graph Data out of contextfile:///home/nolan/Stat133/Graphics/wainer/wainer.html4 of 7 09/23/05 10:216. Change the scales in mid-axis7. Emphasize the trivialfile:///home/nolan/Stat133/Graphics/wainer/wainer.html5 of 7 09/23/05 10:218. Jiggle the baseline9. Austria First!file:///home/nolan/Stat133/Graphics/wainer/wainer.html6 of 7 09/23/05 10:2110. Label illegibly, incompletely, incorrectly, ambiguouslyfile:///home/nolan/Stat133/Graphics/wainer/wainer.html7 of 7 09/23/05 10:2111. More is murkier: more decimal places, more dimensions, ...12. If it has been done well in the past, think of another way to do
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