Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1983. An amazing book full of the best advice on how to present information. If you are about to design an information system, do your users a wonderful service and read Tufte first. The book is also wonderful to read. Envisioning Information , Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1983.
Tufte does it again.
His second book will give you new insights in to how data can be meaningfully displayed. Graphics Press, Cheshire, Connecticut, 1997. The first book is about numbers, the second about nouns, and this one is about verbs. Visual Explanations shows how changes to data are represented. Winograd, Terry and Fernando Flores .