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 ## Reference Paper
 
 Deqing Li, Honghui Mei, Yi Shen, Shuang Su, Wenli Zhang, Junting Wang, Ming Zu, Wei Chen.
-[ECharts: A Declarative Framework for Rapid Construction of Wed-based Visualization](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468502X18300068).
+[ECharts: A Declarative Framework for Rapid Construction of Web-based Visualization](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468502X18300068).
 Visual Informatics, 2018.