Thanks to two loal Libraries, I am now in possession of three of Edward Tufte's masterful tomes. His books are as interesting as I'd thought they'd be, though still different than I expected. So far I'm most interested in The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, the earliest of the three (1983). It may be that this book contains informaiton useful to the understanding and assimilation of the other two. We'll see.

(At 1983, 1990, and 1997, I believe we can expect another next year. –) )

Edward Tufte writes and teaches on information design.