Title: Calling upon the people of the United States to recognize International Chart Day on April 26, 2018, in celebration of charts and infographics of all types.
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
Calls upon the American people to recognize International Chart Day, and supports the efforts to celebrate charts and infographics.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 853 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 853

Calling upon the people of the United States to recognize International 
Chart Day on April 26, 2018, in celebration of charts and infographics 
                             of all types.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 26, 2018

 Mr. Takano submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
            the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Calling upon the people of the United States to recognize International 
Chart Day on April 26, 2018, in celebration of charts and infographics 
                             of all types.

Whereas charts have been around for hundreds of years as a tool to translate 
        complex information;
Whereas charts and infographics give users the ability to provide information 
        through a variety of means, such as line graphs, bar graphs, data maps, 
        Venn diagrams, scatterplots, pie charts, and histograms;
Whereas charts, when properly employed, appeal to the brain's ability to process 
        perceptual features and unearth patterns and trends that large amounts 
        of data often hide;
Whereas celebrated Western innovators have embraced the power of charts and 
        statistics to advance and improve social and cultural conditions, 
        including nurse and statistician Florence Nightingale, economist and pie 
        chart inventor William Playfair, epidemiologist Dr. John Snow, who used 
        maps to solve the riddle of the 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, and 
        American scholar Edward Tufte;
Whereas a chart with a complete set of data is an effective tool for dispelling 
        common misconceptions;
Whereas a public that is able to effectively assess quantitative information 
        will be less susceptible to misinformation campaigns;
Whereas a properly sourced and labeled chart allows consumers to validate the 
        data for themselves, and potentially extrapolate more information as 
        they adjust the data boundaries;
Whereas in almost every profession, from teaching to engineering to plumbing to 
        healing, charts are used to share information quickly and efficiently;
Whereas roughly 6,500 languages are spoken in the world, and visual forms of 
        information can interpret knowledge with minimal use of a common 
        language; and
Whereas Congress has effectively used charts on the floor of the House of 
        Representatives and Senate to support positions on policy: Now, 
        therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) supports the efforts to celebrate charts and 
        infographics;
            (2) encourages the public to use charts to become smarter 
        consumers of information;
            (3) recognizes the hard work of the infographic-creating 
        community to provide the public with alternative means of 
        absorbing knowledge, news, and information; and
            (4) calls upon the people of the United States to recognize 
        ``International Chart Day''.
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