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Figure 1: Variants of bar charts and a pie chart encoding the same data.
Figure 2: Representation of four distributions with bar charts and box plots.

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  2. Nils Gehlenborg is a research associate at Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.,

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