ta. For example, the chart in Figure <a href="data-visualization.html#fig:chartJunk">4.6</a> (created using Microsoft Excel) plots the relative popularity of different religions in the United States. There are at least three things wrong with this figure:</p>
<ul>
<li>it has graphics overlaid on each of the bars that have nothing to do with the actual data</li>
<li>it has a distracting background texture</li>
<li>it uses three-dimensional bars, which distort the data</li>
</ul>
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