The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte (2001, Hardcover, Illustrated)

It's all about charts. Pie chart, Bar chart and other charts. Nothing revolutionary.

It begs to be re-written with the modern needs. After the computer revolution, everyone knows how to use charts. It now needs to focus on what we can do with the today's tools like Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop. No, not the tutorial of using them, but a simplified way to convey exact information or impression, as that was the focus of the book.

Unfortunately, it focused too much on different types of charts. It's not what I expected from the reviewers from Amazon.com.

This book has been a revelation. After reading it just once, I have started to notice basic design faults in graphs that I see in newspapers, on the TV and on my PC. And every time I see a bad graph, I know better what I would like to see changed in it.

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I bought this book for a class in college. I've only used it once and that was for an open book test. After having scanned the material lightly, I've noticed that the text is not very interesting (though the title would sway me otherwise?) and comes off rather bland. It is, however, very informative when it comes to how to properly display graphs, charts, and the like. I would certainly not recommend this book for casual reading, but I would recommend it for somebody who is doing research about the use of graphs, charts, and pictures.