English Explanatory Dictionary

chartjunk

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

chartjunk

Etymology

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

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