re: #131 Cato the Elder

For those interest in graphic depictions of complex realities as an art and a science, you really owe it to yourselves to check out the work of Edward Tufte. He is unbelievably good.

If you attend one of his famous seminars, you get a suitable-for-framing facsimile of one of the most stunning graphics ever created, Charles Minard’s 1861 chart of Napoleon’s catastrophic Russian campaign.

And here is a witty article by Tufte on why PowerPoint is evil.

Science!

Tufte is absolutely fantastic. A thousand updings for mentioning him. I’ve studied his work to avoid the big errors.