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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition
by Edward R. Tufte
from Graphics Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Very nice book
  Tufte's book is a very fine book on data graphics.
  Although this book gives a lot of simple advice on how to effectively communicate quantitative information, it is not just a recipe-like book, as it also makes you think about a data graphic as something that is telling a story with numbers.
  Beware that not all advice given is easily applied using common office suites. This is by no means a problem with the book, it is just that the text is not at all software-oriented. In fact, you may start to... more info

• Masterpiece of graphic design proves timeless and universal
  I returned to Tufte's first classic book of graphic design principles over 20 years after first discovering it. At the time, I was the corporate librarian for a major electric utility, and the explosion in the organization and creation of information by individuals with new personal-computer hardware and software was just beginning (I had an IBM PC-XT with 640Kb of RAM and two 360k floppies--no hard drive).
  Now, I wondered, aside from the masterpiece of graphic design that "Visual Display" of course... more info

• Easy and fun to read
  I was able to read this fairly quickly. (stealing a few hours here and there at work).
  Although I did not find any direct solutions to my current problems - it definitely opened my imagination to consider new possibilities.

• The Ups and Downs of Tufte's Book
  It definitely was interesting and educational to read and see Tufte's presentation on Visual Dispaly of Quantitative Information. He illustrates the good, the bad, and the ugly of graphic displays over the centuries. However, I was hoping to see more examples of current computer graphics that should be emulated in this edition instead of terse comments and skeletal constructs in this area.

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