I haven't seen the rest before, but the Cleveland and McGill paper is excellent, and well worth the read. They make some very interesting conclusions about the

I haven't seen the rest before, but the Cleveland and McGill paper is excellent, and well worth the read. They make some very interesting conclusions about the effectiveness of commonly used graph types, and concrete recommendations for alternatives. The criticisms of 'patch maps' is very strong, and makes an interesting point. If you can find copies, its worth reading all the Tukey papers cited by the Cleveland paper, especially "The Future of Data Analysis".