More effective data graphics: three resources

Subject: More effective data graphics: three resources
From: Geoff Hart <geoff-h -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA>
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 16:28:32 LCL

To follow up on my previous posting, there are actually two books by
Edward Tufte, _The Visual Display of Quantitative Information_ and
_Envisioning Information_. The former is more generally useful for
data graphics, but both are fine reading. If you want a more academic
(yet quite readable) treatment of this subject, you can also try the
following paper, which should be available through inter-library loan:

Michael MacDonald-Ross. 1977. How numbers are shown: a review of
research on the presentation of quantitative data in texts. AV
Communication Review 25(4):359-409.

Tufte is still pounding the lecture circuit last I looked, and has
probably produced some more recent articles that would be worth
reading (I haven't seen any books mentioned). Dr. MacDonald-Ross, a
charming British professor at the Open University of Milton Keynes, is
still alive and well, and willing to correspond with far less charming
blokes like me (as I discovered when I wrote to ask him a question or
two on his paper).

--Geoff Hart @8^{)}
geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca

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