Visual Explanations
This is the better Tufte book, Visual Explanations. It’s short, concise, clever, superbly polished and easier to get my mental hands around. It’s most everything you needed to learn from The Visual Display of Quantitive Information but in bite sized chunks. Accessible throughout and visually striking at points, this is a thoroughly enjoyable book.
It presents some very good and very bad examples of how to present explanations, well, visually.
Short, fast read and highly recommended. I won’t bother itemizing why, because I think this is a book everyone should at least look at and many should read.
