Visualizing (and Presenting) Data

While Tufte's classic, A Visual Display of Quantitative Information, endures as the gold-standard, similar efforts, such as Schwabish's more recent An Economist's Guide to Visualizing Data, warrant a look as well. While most agree with Schwabish's general points: “show the data,” “reduce the clutter,” and “integrate the text and the graph," others differ on some of his applications of the points.