On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Andrea Valle
Hi to all and sorry for the OT,
but here on the list there are some of the most competent people I know on the topic. I will start a course on graphic communication. The students are ground-zero programmers, all on mac, so I would like to use Nodebox (http://nodebox.net/). (Unluckily no time/space to introduce ConTeXt). I will focus on data visualization, so I was considering to adopt Tufte's classic The Visual Display etc. I've still not read Envisioning Information and Visual Explanations. Any ideas? I will have also to introduce basic elements of graphic communication (e.g. fonts, page composition, color usage etc). Suggestions?
You may want to ask this question at tufte.com You will probably also find some references in the books you site. Also at the Tufte lecture there is a recommended reading list handout. There should be a copy online. (* jcl *) -- http://www.luciani.org