Beautiful Evidence

This is the third book of Tufte I read (check also Visual Explanations and Envisioning Information). My impression about BE is that’s a book which somewhat summarizes previous texts (also the chapter about PowerPoint is an old article recycled); in fact most significant examples of them are still reported here. The biggest innovations introduced are the chapter about the sparklines, a great tool which helps conducting quantitative analysises, and the one regarding depestalization, interesting but mostly unrelated with the rest of the book. In my opinion this is a very good book which can (at least partially) “replace” previous three ones, for this reason it will be most enjoyed by Tufte newbies while who already has them can save the money.