Envisioning Information

I am currently reading the book "Envisioning Information" from the renown Yale Professor Edward Tufte. The book contains interesting points of view about the representation of complex information like statistics or three-dimensional visualizations in two-dimensional means, which Edward Tufte calls "Escaping Flatland".

Nowadays we have to deal with huge amounts of information, and the information we obtain, understand, and remember, is directly affected by the way in which data is displayed. It is interesting the way in Which Tufte describes several examples of good and bad design, based on the comprehension of the data being displayed by observing details like color, contrast, and simplicity. I learn that there is an enormous difference when we look at information displayed by lists and arrays of numbers and text, compared to information displayed through 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional visualizations. I was also interested in the idea of designs where 1 + 1 = 3 or more. This idea describes several methods to design visualizations where 2 elements look like 3 or more. These methods can make visualizations more meaningful, and allow a better comprehension of information.