chartjunk en · NOUN
Etymology
From chart + junk, coined by Edward Tufte in his 1983 book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Meanings
- (uncountable) Unnecessary or distracting visual elements included in charts and graphs.
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
From chart + junk, coined by Edward Tufte in his 1983 book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.