(Not so) recently read: Beautiful Evidence, by Edward R. Tufte
I actually read this months ago, but kept forgetting about it. There are some really good case studies of what makes a useful and beautiful information display, though I do get a little annoyed when Tufte keeps bringing up the same examples in book after book (yes, we get it, you like Minard’s figurative map of Napoleon’s Russian campaign). I should probably be more positive, but it didn’t help that I’d already read the best chapter and that the last chapter is self-aggrandizing pablum about Tufte’s mediocre landscape sculptures.
