In this provocation we ask the visualization research community to join us in removing chartjunk from our research lexicon. We present an etymology of chartjunk, framing its provocative origins as misaligned, and harmful, to the ways the term is currently used by visualization researchers. We call on the community to dissolve chartjunk from the ways we talk about, write about, and think about the graphical devices we design and study. As a step towards this goal we contribute a performance of maintenance through a trio of acts: editing the Wikipedia page on chartjunk, cutting out chartjunk from IEEE papers, and scanning and posting a repository of the pages with chartjunk removed to invite the community to re-imagine how we describe visualizations. This contribution blurs the boundaries between research, activism, and maintenance art, and is intended to inspire the community to join us in taking out the trash.
翻译：在这场挑衅中,我们要求目视化研究界和我们一起从我们的研究词汇中去除图纸。我们展示了图纸的文体学,将图纸的挑衅起源描述为错误和有害,以描述目前这个术语被目视化研究人员使用的方式。我们呼吁社区从我们谈论、写作和思考我们设计和研究的图形设备的方式中解开图纸。作为实现这一目标的一个步骤,我们通过三重行动来帮助维护工作:编辑图纸上的维基百科页面,从IEEE文件中剪除图纸,扫描并张贴一个用图纸标本的网页存放处,请社区重新想象我们如何描述图纸化。这种贡献模糊了我们研究、活动和维护艺术之间的界限,并意在激励社区与我们一起清除垃圾。
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