I do a lot of charting for financial services software. The best practical book that I've found is The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Do

I do a lot of charting for financial services software. The best practical book that I've found is The Wall Street Journal Guide to Information Graphics: The Dos and Don'ts of Presenting Data, Facts, and Figures. Simple but practical guidelines for displaying pie/line/area graphs. But for your situation, check out some of these sites which focus on more complicated graphing techniques: http://www.perceptualedge.com/examples.php http://www.perceptualedge.com/examples.php http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009/04/50-great-examples-of-infographics/ http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2009/04/50-great-examples-... http://interface.fh-potsdam.de/infodesignpatterns/news.php http://interface.fh-potsdam.de/infodesignpatterns/news.php http://patternbrowser.org/ http://patternbrowser.org/ http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/15-stunning-examples-of-data-visualization http://webdesignledger.com/inspiration/15-stunning-examples-... http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/ http://www.tableausoftware.com/public/