Books about Graphics

Tufte explains how information can be more effectively conveyed to audiences, even those with less knowledge about the details. As an example, he shows how the NASA Challenger tragedy could have been prevented by better presentation of engineering data that showed the possibility of failure. The book also describes various methods of displaying data to emphasize similarities and differences in data. One problem with the book is that the writing is inconsistent. The latter portion of the book is very tedious at places.

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