Edward Tufte says this is "Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn." It is discussed in Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information and he even

Edward Tufte says this is "Probably the best statistical graphic ever drawn." It is discussed in Tufte's Visual Display of Quantitative Information and he even sells a poster of it: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters.