This book is very effective for science, engineering, technical communications, or just for everyday use in practical applications. This book offers a very complete collection of some of the most effective statistical information. The author gives advice and tips on how to be most effective when portraying statistical information to readers. The book also lays out the graphical designs well, and explains what each one is, with a caption beside each one. It also shows some of the most interesting ways of portraying different types of information graphically.
Tufte also goes into the history, and purpose of each type of graphical portrayal.
This is effective in helping the designer to make the perfect graphical representation.