Re: Foundation books (Was: The Mythical Man-Month)

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

Sandy Harris wrote:
> On 6/20/07, Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com> wrote:
> 
>> My absolute favorite in recent years has been _Sketches of Thought_ by
>> Vinod Goel. ..
> 
> Sounds good; I'll look for it. Thanks.
> 
> I don't recall the author or exact title, but there's a book on graphical
> representations of data that's an absolute classic, 

Tufte is the author.

> 
> One illustration shows Napolean's march on Moscow

It is awesome to see Napoleon's credibly-sized army go into a river, and 
  only a shadow of it comes out on the other side.

A most-admirable graphical data example in that book is the Italian 
train schedule.

> 
> Should we do one for techwr-l? Put it on the site?
> 

I can see why it is a good idea.  I think the foundation books list is a 
good idea too.


Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com


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