I have frequently seen the first two Tufte's books in private law library collections. They are heavily used by litigators to prepare courtroom exhibits that clearly portray complexity. Develop CLE and other training materials which support performance Build architectures of content, so the information becomes the interface. Tufte includes computer displays in Visual Explanations citing to one example in which less than a fifth of the material on the screen has any information value and contrasts this with his own effort for the National Gallery in which 90 percent of the image is substance. Low density computer displays result in spreading information out over many screens or dialog boxes, which causes users to get lost in an information maze.
Maps are at the high end of the data density spectrum.
The eye and the brain work well together in the act of map reading. It almost seems that humans are physiologically disposed to extract information from maps more intuitively and more quickly than from a text or visual scene. Yet Tufte cautions that leaving out a legend to indicate direction, scale and perspective on a map will distort the information. Tufte teaches statistics, graphic design and political economy at Yale University and supplements his teaching with local training seminars on presenting data and public speaking. He has prepared evidence for several jury trials and worked on statistical and design matters for The New York Times, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Lotus development Corporation, Newsweek, CBS, NBC, and the Bureau of the Census.