Information Visualization Homework 2 1. Kenneth and Jeffrey are running a high-tech company. Unfortunately, business has been slow and the next interim report is not going to please the shareholders. Sales are declining and operating costs are going through the roof. (a) Help Kenneth and Jeffrey create a visualizartion of their sales and expenses from the past four quarters that makes the situation look less dramatic. Yopu can use chartjunk, optical illusions, creative layout, etc. , to display the data. (b) Kenneth and Jeffrey got busted by the SEC for providing incorrect information about the company's financial situation to the sharehold- ers. The new management asks you to create a truthful visualization of the sales and expenses. Do this by improving a standard graph from MS Excel, OpenOffice, Matlab, etc., according to Tufte's princi- ples. Present both the standard graph and the improved one. Discuss what improvements you made and why they are useful. Use the same data as in part (a)