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Very overpriced but still good
If you have never read anything about how to make good graphics and tables pick this up. I have been teaching statistics and data visualization for many years and this book does a great job of digesting and summarizing some of the best advice I have seen in other books. It has some of the nicest coverage of tables that I have read. Unfortunately it has a couple weaknesses. It is missing some examples of strong vs weak graphics covered elsewhere (for the best coverage of good vs bad plots see Creating More Effective Graphs) and it is missing any in depth coverage of the grammar of graphics that are popular in analysis packages like SPSS or ggplot2 in R (see ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis (Use R!) if you want to learn about the grammar of graphics with R).The density of useful information here is great but the cost per page of this book is so high that it is not worth the money. If you are on a tight budget you will be upset at the size (but not the quality) of this book.