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Afraid not. I only found out about Tufte's book due to a mention in xkcd. Until Randall mentions another book about plots I'm not likely to find one :-) It wou
by quietbritishjim 3y ago
Afraid not. I only found out about Tufte's book due to a mention in xkcd. Until Randall mentions another book about plots I'm not likely to find one :-)
It would be nice to find someone like Tufte that gathered some actual evidence. Like, trying different plots on groups of people to see which find information faster, maybe using eye tracking. Even just subjective surveys might be an improvement on one person's opinion.
- stiff 3y agoWilliam Cleveland did some research along those lines and he wrote two good books: - The elements of graphing data - Visualizing data The first one is of general interest, the second one more specialized for statisticians.