The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

The Bible for everybody working with graphics

I picked up this book at Borders in Corbins Corner, flipped through, and in 5 minutes I knew what I wanted to do with my life. This book changed my life.

This gorgeous, entertaining, and fantastically helpful book needs to be required reading for all students and practitioners of science and engineering. Read it! Never again will you dare concoct an illegible chart or a nonsensical table, and you will learn about many other techniques for usefully displaying information.

The Old Testament for Visual Design.