The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.
Cheshire (Connecticut): Graphics Press.
The work by Edward R. Tufte, especially as reflected in his classic book on Visual Display of Quantitative Information, develops a full theory about the visual organization of data in tabular format. It is based on a careful analysis of a large repertory of examples, which illustrate the pertinent historical background (with even a reference to maps displayed on clay tablets, p. 20). The discussion does not develop the theme of non-linearity, which is of interest to us, but it is implicit in the very emphasis on the “density” of data (chapter 8) that can be represented in such a fashion.
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