zynphull’s Reviews > The Visual Display of Quantitative Information > Status Update

Still early in the book, first impressions: Tufte puts together a history of data visualization, from its birth in ancient cartography to abhorrent examples of statistical distortion illustrating newspaper articles. Here's hoping I'll learn some useful things for developing my UX and dataviz skills. Visualization is more than seeing, it's about reasoning based on information that was previously only numbers on tables