The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Bracket

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Regular polls posted to Witscord by Staz. The images are from the book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte.

Bracket

Round 1

Match Contestant Votes
1 4 datasets with identical linear model 2
graphs of 4 datasets with identical linear models 4
2 solar radiation and stock prices 6
univariate plots fail to show outlier A 1
3 cancer rates (m/f) age-adjusted by county 2
trachea/bronchus/lung cancer rates 1
4 Map of the Tracks of Yü the Great 4
stomach cancer rates (m/f) age-adjusted by county 2
5 Cosmographia (1546) 2
global trade winds and monsoons 4
6 Location of cholera deaths in central London 4
Trade winds and monsoons between and near the tropics 1
7 French wine exports in 1864 10
Galaxy map 1
8 Galaxy map 2 2
Inclinations of planetary orbits vs Time 2
9 Radio emissions from Jupiter 3
Soil temperature at various depths vs Time 3
10 New York City's weather for 1980 3
Train schedule for Paris to Lyon 6
11 CHART of IMPORTS and EXPORTS to and from ENGLAND 5
Exports and Imports of SCOTLAND from Christmas 1780-81 0
12 Birth, death, and reign of English rulers (1660-1860) 1
CHART showing Price of Wheat & Wages (1565-1824) 6
13 Horse tracks at different paces 4
Starfish turning itself over 5
14 advancing gecko 10
Undulations of the dorsal fin of a descending sea-horse 1
15 Man in black velvet photographed in stick-figure images 5
Outgoing mail of the U.S. House of Representatives 2
16 Magnetic flux vs Time 4
Variation in total US retail sales 5
17 collapse of bridge in 1840 3
Napoleon's Russian Campaign (1812) 5
18 Air pollution in southern California 5
Life cycle of Japanese beetle 4
19 Area, population, tax revenue of european countries 5
Lung cancer death rate by country 2
20 Inflation vs Unemployment 5
Meta analysis of reported thermal conductivity of Cu 6

Note: In the event of a tie, Just Kirb decided the winner.

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