It's easy to produce chartjunk using Microsoft®Excel 2007 but hard to make good graphs

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 4594-4601

  Su, Yu Sung ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EXCEL GRAPHICS; MICROSOFT (CO); STATISTICAL GRAPHICS;

DATA VISUALIZATION;

EID: 44349149840     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.03.007     Document Type: Article

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