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The Tufte books are brilliant. For dynamic charts, his first book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information) is the most relevant, it covers the theory -
by j-g-faustus 17y ago
The Tufte books are brilliant. For dynamic charts, his first book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information) is the most relevant, it covers the theory - how to tell a good representation from a bad one - and the basics.
Readings in Information Visualization ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Readings-Information-Visualization-Interactive-Technologies/dp/1558605339/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1271259347&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Readings-Information-Visualization-I... ) is a collection of papers covering a wide range of techniques for a wide range of tasks.
Apart from that, it's mostly a matter of picking up interesting ideas wherever you find them. flowingdata.com is nice, same with http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/ http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
- wdewind 17y agoInformation is Beautiful is great for fun stuff, but there are a ton of bad practices on that site, it's not for serious infographics. Be careful copying from it unless you are really able to tell where he's having fun and where his charts are serious (because he's very capable of both).
- j-g-faustus 17y agoAgreed. I was assuming that you have read your Tufte :) and can tell informative visuals from those that are primarily pretty or entertaining.
- watmough 17y agoYes, the books are excellent, great reads, though the first one as you say is the essential one. Once you read these, you will start seeing 'Data Ducks' everywhere! I speak from experience.