Day 22: Tufte

Edward Tufte is a professor at Yale who teaches corporate project managers and government bureaucrats how to turn numeric data into a visual presentation so an audience can get the broad facts of a project without having to sit through long and tedious PowerPoint slide shows. A Tufte chart overlays multiple pieces of information onto one chart or graph so it tells a story.

In this Tufte, the story being told is about ice that was purchased
and made throughout a summer when the ice maker broke and
a record heat wave hit the area. 

This particular Tufte is actually a book of days during one summer -- Wow!  I just now got that, how cool is that?!  Made into an actual book, this would take up at least 37 pages but all the numeric data can fit onto one page in the way. The book would use text to explain the why's and wherefore's, but in this way the audience interprets the conclusions quickly by putting 2 and 2 together.