"Canon" was leaking onto the public site — a nav item, a footer block, a
page title, a set of CSS class names. It was also driving content
decisions it had no business driving: the backlog was ordered around
which references were still unused, which is curation dressed up as
planning.
The page is now /references/, the list is documented as a bibliography
to grow rather than a canon to curate, and the backlog says plainly that
a sin earns a slot by being worth a page — sources are found to support
it, never the reverse.
Adds six sources (Cairo's Truthful Art, Few's Show Me the Numbers, the
Economist's audit of its own charts, Kosara's eagereyes, WTF
Visualizations, Datawrapper's dual-axis piece) and roughly doubles the
citations on the five published sins, to 5-7 each. Two of the new notes
point at sources that complicate our own position rather than back it.
The Economist essay ships without a URL rather than a guessed one.
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Writes two sins off the backlog. The inverted y-axis is the egregious
one: the fill hangs from the top and the line descends while the values
climb, with every element individually defensible. Aspect ratio is the
quiet one: same twelve numbers, same y-range, only the shape of the box
changes.
Adds Cleveland, McGill & McGill 1988 to the canon — banking to 45 comes
from the shape-parameter paper, not the 1984 ranking already cited, so
citing the latter for it would have misattributed the claim.
Also renames sin slugs to match their retitled pages, and rewrites the
summaries that had started echoing those titles.
Gives line-chart points their mark color explicitly; "point": true was
falling back to Vega's default blue on a red or green line.
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