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Data-Ink Ratio

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Data-Ink Ratio

Maximize data, minimize non-data ink - remove chartjunk and decoration

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Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983)
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Maximize data, minimize non-data ink - remove chartjunk and decoration

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These columns either grow organically as the pipeline observes the canon entry in real slides, or need manual enrichment in the source-of-truth DB. Surfaced here for transparency.

  • when_to_use
  • why_it_works
  • signals
  • antipattern
  • body_doc_id

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