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The complexity of multi functioning elements can sometimes turn that a graphics individual puzzles, cryptographical mysteries for the viewer to decode. A sure sign of the puzzle is that the graphic must be interpreted through a verbal rather than a visual process.

i’ve been staring at the cover of this book for a while since it’s been sitting on my desk but i never realized the image on the cover is of train schedules (paris to lyon, by Marey, method attributed to french engineer Ibry.) genius!

Graphical competence demands three quite different skills: the substantive, statistical, and artistic.

To be truthful and revealing, data graphics must bear on the question of the heart of quantitative thinking: “Compared to what?”

Show data variation not design variation

“Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space”

Could not disagree more.

Occasionally graphics are belligerently multivariate, advertising the technique rather than the data.

I'm flipping through this book for reference while doing some analyses for one of my grad courses. It is a PHENOMENAL resource so far.