Data Representation Quotes

“Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.”
― Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

“No data are excluded on subjective or arbitrary grounds. No one piece of data is more highly valued than another. The consequences of this policy have to be accepted, even if they prove awkward.”
― Jennifer K. McArthur, Place-Names in the Knossos Tablets Identification and Location