With all of the tools available now - some of which were mentioned in this writeup - it really puts into perspective the efforts Edward Tufte went through with

With all of the tools available now - some of which were mentioned in this writeup - it really puts into perspective the efforts Edward Tufte went through with his awesome books 10-30 years ago. I believe he said he spent into six figures just getting The Visual Display of Quantitative Information produced and out of the door.