Beautiful Evidence

Good Books: (via Emergic) Beautiful Evidence is Edward Tufte's latest book. Tufte’s forte is information visualisation.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about Edward Tufte:
Tufte's work is important in such fields as information design and visual literacy, which deal with the visual communication of information. He coined the term chartjunk to refer to useless, non-informative, or information-obscuring elements of information displays. Tufte's work argues strongly against the inclusion of any decoration in visual presentations of information and claims that ink should only be used to convey significant data and aid its interpretation.

The focus in this book is on evidence presentation. As Tufte writes in the introduction: (The book) is about how seeing turns into showing, how empirical observations turn into explanations and evidence, suggests new designs, and provides analytical tools for assessing the credibility of evidence presentations.

I believe the book makes you think about the meaning of words and images + the ability to interpret truth in simple language (s).