English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From chart + junk, coined by Edward Tufte in his 1983 book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Noun
[edit]chartjunk (uncountable)
- Unnecessary or distracting visual elements included in charts and graphs.
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