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chartjunk

noun

Etymology

From chart + junk, coined by Edward Tufte in his 1983 book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

  1. derived from *d₂luuŋ✻ — “boat”
  2. derived from joṅ
  3. derived from ꦗꦺꦴꦁ
  4. derived from jong
  5. derived from جُنْك
  6. borrowed from jonk
  7. borrowed from junco
  8. compounded as chartjunk — “chart + junk”

Definitions

  1. Unnecessary or distracting visual elements included in charts and graphs.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA