Are there any good examples of ’large amounts of information being displayed simply and intuitively?’
25th September 2012
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Much of Edward Tufte’s career has been dedicated to documenting (and inventing) ways of handling these problems—his books are an absolute joy to browse through: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
I also really enjoy XKCD’s attempts at this kind of thing:
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