Visual Explanations

This is the second book of Tufte I read, the third book of the series divided  in numbers (“The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”), nouns (“Envisioning Information”) and verbs (“Visual Explanations”). VE is structured like all other books, many examples (both good and bad) are shown to support author’s ideas; simply enlightening are the case studies regarding the Cholera epidemic in London analyzed by John Snow and the decision to launch the Space Shuttle Challenger. Also interesting is the chapter about magic as an example of “disinformation design” and the principle of the “smallest effective difference”.

As the other books, VE is both pleasant and useful.