Edward Tufte: Beautiful Evidence

One of the best ways to look at data is through fascinating visual ways. I was turned on to Edward Tufte's work a few years back. His design is clean, eloquent and simply put, beautiful. Tufte is a world famous statistician who also teaches political and computer science at Yale. He is most famous for his undertakings of Information Design, and very eloquently describes quantitative information through drawings, graphics and sculpture. In a world with innumerable data, Tufte finds ways to expose profound relationships through visual means. Interestingly enough, in March of this year he was appointed by President Obama to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Recovery and Independent Advisory Panel to reveal how recovery money was being spent.

Check out more on Tufte's website.