I attended a seminar a few years back. The books are great, but I actually really enjoyed his commentary on the designs. He really explains well why certain des

I attended a seminar a few years back. The books are great, but I actually really enjoyed his commentary on the designs. He really explains well why certain designs work well for a given purpose and fail miserably at other purposes. For example, the Minard chart[1] works exceptionally well to convey the loss of life in Napoleon's campaign in Russia. However, if you may not be able to apply this type of chart to a typical dashboard as easily. Tufte does a great job explaining exactly what makes Minard's visualization work so well. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Minard.png