Eduard R. Tufte

• Time-series display are their best for big data sets.
• If you zoom out a table you can see the shape of a graph
• Graphic excellence is that witch gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the short time with the least elements in the smallest space. ★
• The perceived area of a circle probably grows somewhat more slowly than the actual (physical, measured) area. Perceptual scaling of map Symbols
• Always consider the inflation rate when display money in time-series
• The number of information-carrying (variable) dimensions depicted should not exceed the number of dimensions in the data.
• Graphics can be designed to have at least three viewing depths:
  1. What is seen from a distance, an overall structure usually aggregated from an underlying microstructure;
  2. what is seen up close and in detail, the fine structure of the data
  3. what is seen implicitly, underlying the graphic – that which is behind the graphic.
• Avoid Redundancy: A bar chart have the height, the left, the right and the up line to infom the same information. ★
• Phillips Curve: a inverse relationship between the level of unemployment and the rate of inflation.

Inspiration

E.J Marey, Graphical train schedule for Paris to Lyon in the 1880

Charles Minard's map of Napoleon's disastrous Russian campaign of 1812.

Numerical designations of American divisions in France by month during WWI - Leonard P. Ayres, 1919