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Book News, Guests | December 14, 2009

How to Be a Vampire

4 comments By Amy Gray

Oh, hi. I'm Amy Gray. I like smoking, carbs, and words. I live in the (currently) sleek humidity of Melbourne, Australia. When not lying... Continue »

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   How to Be a Vampire: A Fangs-On Guide for the Newly Undead

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Ian Craig, November 24, 2006

This book is indispensable for anyone who has to present numerical information to other people (scientists, business people, journalists, etc.) Tufte beautifully lays out how to (and how not to) communicate numbers through graphs, charts, maps, tables, etc. for maximum visual impact, understandability, and information density.

He does this in a way that turns what might be a textbook or how-to manual into a coffee table art book. Two of my favorites are the chart depicting a 24 hour train schedule (which appears on the cover) and a map showing Napoleon's drive to Moscow, with the line width proportional to the number of troops left. Both simply and effectively convey a maximum amount of information with a minimum amount of ink in a visually appealing way.

His other two books, Envisioning Information (which, as Tufte describes it, deals with visualizing nouns) and Visual Explanations (visualization of verbs) are similarly beautiful and highly recommended.

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