The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Bracket

Regular polls posted to Witscord by Staz, from March 5, 2025. The bracket is predicted to end some time in mid-to-late June, 2025.

The images are from the book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte.

Bracket

Preliminaries

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
21	Fear vs Rage	6
	Seedling growth vs calcium content (ppm)	5
22	Commission payments to travel agents	7
	Day Mines Inc. (1970-74)	6
23	Fuel economy standards for autos	3
	Fuel economy standards (honest version)	5
24	F.E.S. (honest version) (decorated version)	4
	Nobel prizes, 1901-74 vs 1901-80	3
25	OPEC Oil Prices (1973-79)	4
	Price per bbl. of light crude	4
26	OPEC Benchmark Prices 1970-79	2
	Price of oil and energy in OECD area	4
27	Real price of crude oil (1958-79)	5
	Real/Nominal prices of crude oil (1972-79)	2
28	National debt of Britain (tall version) (nominal)	4
	National debt of britain (wide version) (real)	5
29	government spending (1930-1970)	3
	New York State budget and expenditures	3
30	French auto exports (1927-29)	3
	per capita budget expenditures	5
31	percentage of family practitioners	1
	purchasing power of the dollar	2
32	Italian post office savings deposits	5
	Population of major european cities	2
33	Growth of industrial output (1922-82)	3
	Traffic deaths (1951-59)	6
34	Company cafeteria use in 1949	0
	English trade with North America	7
35	length vs generation time (log)	3
	Trade between england and denmark/norway	2
36	Voting registration rates (predicted vs actual)	3
	World ocean circulation	8
37	Atomic Number vs Atomic Volume	4
	Cross-Enhancement of the Sour Taste on Single Papillae	0
38	Brazillian economic statistics	4
	Severity of Aortic Regurgitation vs Months after Op	1
39	Average probabilities of ω	1
	French population vs Year of Birth	6
40	age structure of college enrolment	3
	particle physics momentum data	5
41	California Applied Irrigation Water 1972	3
	Quantity of critical articles by issue area	5
42	Telephone bill vs Years lived in Chicago	3
	Telephone bill vs Years lived in Chicago (minimal)	2
43	application of statistics to industrial experimentations	1
	Narrowband spectra of individual subpulses	6
44	College students arranged by height	4
	Stem and leaf of volcano heights	1
45	easter-wings	1
	faces representing points in k-dimensional space	8
46	Magnetohydrodynamic instrument measurements	5
	road lane markings by state	2
47	Height of Adult Children vs Midparents	2
	Mitchell Map vs Mercator Projection	5
48	Democratic vote vs party vs religion	8
	England national debt from 1688 to 1784	1
49	corporate annual reports, inc.	2
	thermal conductivity of tungsten	6
50	X-axis is the data	2
	X-axis is the data / Y-axis is actual values	6
51	male cardiovascular disease deaths vs avg people per household	5
	population distribution of the US	5
52	annual sunshine record	8
	annual sunshine record (dark mode)	6
53	American divisions stationed in France in WWI	4
	government receipts as % of GDP	1
54	boundaries of French communes	8
	Percent of people in education	2
55	problemes graphiques poses par les chroniques	4
	reactive hydrocarbons / hr in LA	3
56	chromosomes of human, chimpanzee, gorilla, orangutan	1
	distribution of occurrence of melanoma	5
57	age composition of herring catches (1908-1913)	4
	effects of sampling errors	1
58	forecasts of key economic indicators	3
	frequency of repair for cars built in 1976-81	3
59	relationship between seats and votes	1
	Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger	7

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

Granted Byes for Landslide Victory
French wine exports in 1864
advancing gecko
English trade with North America
faces representing points in k-dimensional space
Democratic vote vs party vs religion

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graphs of 4 datasets with identical linear models

7

solar radiation and stock prices

3

graphs of 4 datasets with identical linear models

1

Map of the Tracks of Yü the Great

4

cancer rates (m/f) age-adjusted by county

2

Map of the Tracks of Yü the Great

3

Map of the Tracks of Yü the Great

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Location of cholera deaths in central London

4

global trade winds and monsoons

1

Location of cholera deaths in central London

5

Location of cholera deaths in central London

7

French wine exports in 1864

3

Location of cholera deaths in central London

Inclinations of planetary orbits vs Time

4

Soil temperature at various depths vs Time

2

Inclinations of planetary orbits vs Time

Train schedule for Paris to Lyon

CHART of IMPORTS and EXPORTS to and from ENGLAND

3

Train schedule for Paris to Lyon

4

CHART showing Price of Wheat & Wages (1565-1824)

5

Starfish turning itself over

4

CHART showing Price of Wheat & Wages (1565-1824)

advancing gecko

Man in black velvet photographed in stick-figure images

6

Variation in total US retail sales

2

Man in black velvet photographed in stick-figure images

Napoleon's Russian Campaign (1812)

Air pollution in southern California

1

Napoleon's Russian Campaign (1812)

8

Area, population, tax revenue of european countries

0

Meta analysis of reported thermal conductivity of Cu

8

Meta analysis of reported thermal conductivity of Cu

Fear vs Rage

Commission payments to travel agents

0

Fear vs Rage

3

F.E.S. (honest version) (decorated version)

3

Fuel economy standards (honest version)

1

F.E.S. (honest version) (decorated version)

Price of oil and energy in OECD area

OPEC Oil Prices (1973-79)

2

Price of oil and energy in OECD area

3

National debt of britain (wide version) (real)

3

Real price of crude oil (1958-79)

2

National debt of britain (wide version) (real)

English trade with North America

government spending (1930-1970)

1

per capita budget expenditures

3

per capita budget expenditures

Italian post office savings deposits

Italian post office savings deposits

2

purchasing power of the dollar

2

length vs generation time (log)

4

Traffic deaths (1951-59)

0

length vs generation time (log)

Atomic Number vs Atomic Volume

Atomic Number vs Atomic Volume

4

World ocean circulation

0

faces representing points in k-dimensional space

French population vs Year of Birth

Brazillian economic statistics

2

French population vs Year of Birth

4

particle physics momentum data

4

Quantity of critical articles by issue area

2

particle physics momentum data

Narrowband spectra of individual subpulses

Narrowband spectra of individual subpulses

2

Telephone bill vs Years lived in Chicago

0

College students arranged by height

1

Magnetohydrodynamic instrument measurements

1

College students arranged by height

thermal conductivity of tungsten

Mitchell Map vs Mercator Projection

2

thermal conductivity of tungsten

4

Democratic vote vs party vs religion

population distribution of the US

population distribution of the US

6

X-axis is the data / Y-axis is actual values

5

American divisions stationed in France in WWI

2

annual sunshine record

6

annual sunshine record

problemes graphiques poses par les chroniques

boundaries of French communes

2

problemes graphiques poses par les chroniques

4

age composition of herring catches (1908-1913)

5

distribution of occurrence of melanoma

3

age composition of herring catches (1908-1913)

forecasts of key economic indicators

forecasts of key economic indicators

3

Zyklus für einen Schlagzeuger

3

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

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