Bars vs. Lollipops (vs. Dot Plots)

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    Examples of 3 chart types, presented as candy. The Y-Axis represents silliness and, in the case of the bar chart, each bar’s height represents its own violation of the data-ink-ratio principle.

    This was the cover-image for an experiment-writeup, exploring efficacy of different chart types by a/b testing on Mechanical Turk.

    From "Settling the Debate: Bars vs. Lollipops (vs. Dot Plots)" - https://3isapattern.com/bar-graphs-vs-lollipop-charts-vs-dot-plots-experiment-PP8-qapwQe2fRBJu1-ADfA/

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