Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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DV

Data Visualisation and Information Design

Art and design

Holds books on charts, maps, diagrams and visual explanation, led by Edward Tufte.

Books 16Recommenders 10

Start here

  1. Powers of TenPhilip Morrison, Phylis Morrison, 1982
  2. The Visual Display of Quantitative InformationEdward R. Tufte, 1983
  3. The Elements of Graphing DataWilliam S. Cleveland, 1985
  4. Envisioning InformationEdward R. Tufte, 1990
  5. Visual ExplanationsEdward R. Tufte, 1997
Powers of TenPowers of Ten
T4 Powers of Ten
Philip Morrison, Phylis Morrison · 1982
Open LibraryGoodreads

The relative size of things in the universe, each step adding another zero.

Recommended by: Stewart Brand

The Visual Display of Quantitative InformatiThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information
T4 The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Edward R. Tufte · 1983
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Bret Victor, Daniel Burka and 1 other

The Elements of Graphing DataThe Elements of Graphing Data
T4 The Elements of Graphing Data
William S. Cleveland · 1985
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Bret Victor

Envisioning InformationEnvisioning Information
T4 Envisioning Information
Edward R. Tufte · 1990
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to show complex information on flat paper or screens, with many examples.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Bret Victor, Jeff Atwood and 1 other

Visual ExplanationsVisual Explanations
T4 Visual Explanations
Edward R. Tufte · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Bret Victor, Jeff Atwood

The Map BookThe Map Book
T4 The Map Book
Peter Barber · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Stewart Brand

Beautiful EvidenceBeautiful Evidence
T4 Beautiful Evidence
Edward R. Tufte · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Bret Victor, Jeff Atwood

Presentation ZenPresentation Zen
T4 Presentation Zen
Garr Reynolds · 2007
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to design and deliver simple, creative slide presentations.

Recommended by: Nir Eyal

Designing Data Visualizations: Representing Designing Data Visualizations: Representing Informational Relationships
T4 Designing Data Visualizations: Representing Informational Relationships
Noah P. N. Iliinsky, Julie Steele · 2011
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Visual LeadersVisual Leaders
T4 Visual Leaders
David Sibbet · 2012
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Andy Budd

Information GraphicsInformation Graphics
T4 Information Graphics
Simon Rogers · 2014
Open LibraryGoodreads

Recommended by: Coleen Baik, Jessica Hische

Logic & Design in Art, Science, and Mathemat
T4 Logic & Design in Art, Science, and Mathematics
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Logic and DesignLogic and Design
T4 Logic and Design
Krome Barratt
Goodreads

Recommended by: Bret Victor

Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Ele
T4 Oliver Byrne: The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid
Goodreads

Euclid's first six books, with diagrams and proofs drawn in bright coloured shapes.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Photoviz: Visualizing Information through PhPhotoviz: Visualizing Information through Photography
T4 Photoviz: Visualizing Information through Photography
Goodreads

Photographs that visualise data, from Wi-Fi fields to many moments in one image.

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, M
T4 Semiology of Graphics: Diagrams, Networks, Maps
Goodreads

Recommended by: Patrick Collison

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