New FlowingData Book
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Data Points
Visualization that Means Something
Available: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Wiley
Data PointsFlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better — mainly through data visualization.
As for me, I'm Nathan Yau, and I have a PhD in statistics, with a background in eating.
Visualize This
I was in high school during the Nixon, and the subsequent Ford administration when I saw this in the newspaper back then.
I was struck by this and figured it was due to President Nixon having had to sign so many many documents that he just speed up the process of knocking out his signature.