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Title: Digital Diagrams: How to Design and Present Statistical Information Effectively by Trevor Bounford, Alastair Campbell ISBN: 0-8230-1572-6 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.29 (7 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: A guide for what NOT to do
Comment: As an experienced information designer I bought this book with great hope. Unfortunately what I saw appalled me. This book turns many of the principles of designing good information graphics on their head. If you have read Ed Tufte's books and appreciate his concepts of reducing "chart junk" this book will astound you in actually suggesting you dress up a graph with pretty background graphics and cute icons.

Not only does this book present questionable aesthetic values, but even promotes the creation of misleading diagrams. One example is the suggestion to just make a 90 degree turn with a bar on a bar chart if that one doesn't fit conveniently.

There are so many bad examples in this book that it is almost useful as a guide for what NOT to do when designing charts and diagrams.

Rating: 2
Summary: What you can do, not what you should do
Comment: A visually appealing book that shows off many digital effects and possible ways of creating digital diagrams. Whether or not you should do some of the things shown is another matter.

This book is not for the serious Information Architect - but may be useful for a designer or graphic artist.

Read Tufte and Wainer first - but then you won't find much new or useful here.

Rating: 4
Summary: Good one.
Comment: This is a good resource. Desinging a page layout is important, no matter what your carrer is. Lots of good ideas here.

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