In terms of visualizing aiding in understanding data I have a couple of champions and heroes.
I first became fascinated with the idea thanks to The Work of Edward Tufte and Graphics Press and Tufte’s books Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative (1997), Envisioning Information (1990), and The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (2001).
Then in the early 2000’s thanks to TedTalks I learned of and discovered Hans Rosling thanks to his wonderful The best stats you’ve ever seen presentation.
And then there is David McCandless…
More from and on David McCandless…
