Publisher: Graphics Press
Release: May 1997
Genre: Arts & Photography
Format: Paperback
Pages: 32
ISBN: 0961392134
Summary: This is a 31 page pamphlet reproducing chapter 2 of Tufte's 1997 "Visual Explanation:images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative". It contains two case studies: doing it right illustrated by John Snow's famous Cholera investigation and doing it wrong showing charts used to determine the ill-fated challenger accident (could almost be renamed as an example of liing with charts what what to suspect).
Production values are unusually high (which we'd expect from Tufte) with heavy paper, well printed, excellent illustration and color pictures. The pages are large 8.5"x11". The only thing I'm concerned about is the durability of the cover pages (paper back).
Two really good eamples, one good/one bad, of the use of charts.
Low price, 5 stars.