chartjunk
The English word “chartjunk” has 1 meaning listed here.
noun
- Unnecessary or distracting visual elements included in charts and graphs.
Etymology
From chart + junk, coined by Edward Tufte in his 1983 book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
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