The Visual Display of Quantitative Information Bracket

Regular polls posted to Witscord by Staz. 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 Atmoic 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

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Main Event

	Round of 64					Round of 32					Round of 16					Quarterfinals					Semifinals					Finals
	1
	64
	33
	32
	17
	48
	49
	16
	9
	56
	41
	24
	25
	40
	57
	8
	5
	60
	37
	28
	21
	44
	53
	12
	13
	52
	45
	20
	29
	36
	61
	4
	3
	62
	35
	30
	19
	46
	51
	14
	11
	54
	43
	22
	27
	38
	59
	6
	7
	58
	39
	26
	23
	42
	55
	10
	15
	50
	47
	18
	31
	34
	63
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