27 February 2003

Edward Tufte: Sources for Minard's famous 1861 map of the Napoleonic campaign in Russia 1812-13 Famous for Tufte-watchers/information-designers anyway. Also, notes on the Life of Charles Joseph Minard 4:54:53 PM     comments

Apophenia Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena Conspiracy theorists should note. People debugging complex applications too. [via William Gibson] 4:14:09 PM     comments

Blood, dirt, and nomograms - a particular history of graphs [via robotwisdom] 4:12:07 PM     comments