Just picked up a copy of
"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
by Edward R. Tufte
for 10 dollars!
http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi
Same, small secondhand bookshop that I found BIOMETRY by Sokal and Rolf for the same price!
Its good to know these little independent bookshops can still be found.
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Nice. I really like the Tufte book. I got it for Christmas one year! It was a really good gift.
Great gift Dason!
It really is an awesome book. Though some of the best graphs are stunning (i.e. Napoleons advance) I am equally intrigued by how bad some of them are
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Indeed! Although I'm also intrigued by how bad some graphics are that make it to print...Originally Posted by bugman
I am equally intrigued by how bad some of them are
I saw a graph in my university's paper the other day that literally conveyed no information to the reader. At first glance it gave the impression that they were summarizing some data but upon further inspection one came to the realization that nothing of value could be obtained from the graphic. I'll see if I can find it somewhere... it gave my friends and I a good laugh before class.
I would love to see it!
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Hi,
just to inform that I find the book in PDF version (for free) on the Web.....
Gm
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