Data Ink

Research

https://www.darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked

Sometimes We Must Raise Our Voices
Stephen Few, Perceptual Edge
Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter
January/February 2009

Advocates not minimized data-ink to an absolute minimum as a de-facto principle, but instead to consider the right amount of data-ink to most clearly communicate the content

http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/sometimes_we_must_raise_our_voices.pdf