Are there any good examples of ’large amounts of information being displayed simply and intuitively?’
25th September 2012
My answer to Are there any good examples of ’large amounts of information being displayed simply and intuitively?’ on Quora
Much of Edward Tufte’s career has been dedicated to documenting (and inventing) ways of handling these problems—his books are an absolute joy to browse through: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
I also really enjoy XKCD’s attempts at this kind of thing:
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