I am so pleased to see Al tout Tufte's spectacular book. This book was given to me by Adam Triester many years back, and has become my personal "graphics presentation" bible. It is not only highly readable, it is very informative. Once you read this book, you will never again look at a graph the same way! And, importantly, you will never prepare a graph in quite the same way! You can easily order this book (US$40) from <http://www.amazon.com>--just type "Tufte" in the search box and it's the first thing to come up. This book should be right next to every other text book or dictionary that you have on your shelf! mr >When your are trying to publish your data the goal is to create a graphic >that allows the reader to understand at a glance what you measured and to >let the data speak for themselves. Axis labels are but a small part of this >process. Read Edward Tufte, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, >Graphic Press, Cheshire, Ct, 1983, for an explanation of "Chart Junk" and >why you don't want to clutter your graphic with redundant or superfluous >information. > >Albert Donnenberg >Pittsburgh, PA
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