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ain't no turkey gobble gobble. txt2v told me doctor congo rails at rwanda. cheesy doorstops every color but yellow, glen echo fire glow open 24 hours

watched the last showgirl. on date with you're probably going to haunt this theater dave bautista, pamela looks exactly like kevin mccallister's mom

remix luke (war criminal, fingerpaint thyself) and [different mutiny] caine (some men just want to watch the capitol burn).  libertarian left might've ignited world war one, capitalists & communists lit the fuse to all the other dynamite.  moulin rage in the bronzer age, new cyrus riding wrecking ball

read the wall street journal guide to information graphics: the dos and don'ts of presenting data, facts, and figures by dona m. wong who misspelled²

unlike a mispelled word in a story, one wrong number discredits the whole chart

serif type has a stroke added to the beginning or end of the main strokes of the letter

hue is how we normally describe color..saturation is the intensity of the color..red becomes..less pink..value is how light or dark..adding black ink

don't use red for positive numbers in a bar chart

about 1 in 10 men have some form of color blindness

imagine reading a pie chart as you would a clock.  it makes the most sense to place the largest segment of the pie on the right at 12

never shade below a line unless the chart has a zero baseline.  filling in below a line turns a line chart into an area graph

even if color is available, do not plot more than four lines on a single chart.  you won't find a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow

always label the data point of the broken bar

 a donut pie chart can be used to display the total value inside the pie

to calculate annualized volatility: daily standard deviation x √number of trading days in a year

describe a 20% change as a 20% increase from $10 or 20% increase to $12..we would not give directions such as "drive 20 miles" without noting the direction north or south

"the dow" is the world's most frequently quoted and longest-serving market indicator of its kind, measuring the u.s. market since its creation by charles dow in 1896

in accounting, a fudge factor known as the cumulative translation adjustment (cta) is used to reconcile the differences that arise from using average and end-of-period exchange rates together

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