There are a set of basic principles that hold true for the design of many graphs and various authors have their own preferences. One author who is prominent due to his good work in the area of data visualisation and presentation of evidence to support decision making is Edward Tufte. Read the rest of this entry »
There are the following book reviews on this website:
Book Review – Modern Applied Statistics with S by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley (Springer 2003)
Book Review – ggplot 2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis by Hadley Wickham (Springer 2009)
Book Review – Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R by Deepayan Sarkar (Springer 2008)