I've read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte, and I think it would benefit you even though you are not talking about manually generating ch

I've read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Tufte, and I think it would benefit you even though you are not talking about manually generating charts. For example, he talks about how it's easy to be misleading with a chart based on how you calibrate the axes, which is something you'd still need to do even with dynamically generated visualizations.