::WHEN THE GOIN' GETS TUFTE...::
I own the books
Envisioning Information and
Visual Explanations by Edward Tufte. They are beautifully published, and their illustrations do just that -- they make the topics more lustrous and flat-out
seeable. The former "celebrates escapes from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen." Parts of the latter examine the data surrounding the space shuttle Challenger and posits a new visual analysis which would've precluded launch. Now, it seems, Tufte's got another book in the works called
Beautiful Evidence, and a few pages have shown up on his website
here.
Santa, I hope you're paying attention.
(via
kottke.org)