I have practically finished The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte. The book is very beautiful and inspiring – I have the urge to somehow take a wiki and produce charts and maps, ingenious, revealing, multivariate, multilevel. But how? And what? I’ve got to think of something.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Tufte derives some very simple rules from the good and bad examples he shows throughout the book, but obviously he cannot tell his readers how to be creative, and how to be good. All he can tell is how to reason about graphs and maps and time series and all those other visual displays of quantitative information. And that he does, beautifully.
Via a search for "Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte" I found short reviews of Tufte's books on the website of SusanStepney. Somehow the style seemed familiar. And indeed, just a few weeks ago I linked to her site, as I talked about CharlieStross on 2006-04-07 Books. Maybe I should go and explore her website! (Not her official bio at the university, of course... ;))
short reviews of Tufte's books
her official bio at the university
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