Re: Foundation books (Was: The Mythical Man-Month)

Subject: Re: Foundation books (Was: The Mythical Man-Month)
From: Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>
To: Sandy Harris <sandyinchina -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 23:54:20 -0700

Sandy Harris wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> wrote:
>
>> My absolute favorite in recent years has been _Sketches of Thought_ by
>> Vinod Goel. ..
>
> Sounds good; I'll look for it. Thanks.
>
> I don't recall the author or exact title, but there's a book on graphical
> representations of data that's an absolute classic,

Tufte is the author.

>
> One illustration shows Napolean's march on Moscow

It is awesome to see Napoleon's credibly-sized army go into a river, and
only a shadow of it comes out on the other side.

A most-admirable graphical data example in that book is the Italian
train schedule.

>
> Should we do one for techwr-l? Put it on the site?
>

I can see why it is a good idea. I think the foundation books list is a
good idea too.


Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com


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References:
Foundation books (Was: The Mythical Man-Month): From: Stuart Burnfield
Re: Foundation books (Was: The Mythical Man-Month): From: Ned Bedinger
Re: Foundation books (Was: The Mythical Man-Month): From: Sandy Harris

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