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    Cover of Visual Complexity

    Visual Complexity

    Manuel Lima · 2013

    Writing & LanguageDesign & UXProgramming
    Open LibraryAmazon
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    3recommend
    3mentions
    3people
    2017–2019years
    100% recommend

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    201720182019

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    1. Anon84Jul 2019
      Interesting selection. I'm surprised to find some of my more eclectic favorites included:

      - Naked Ape, Desmond Morris

      - Feynman Lectures on Computation - Feynman

      - Guide to Feynman Diagrams - Mattuck

      - Visual Complexity - Lima

      - Data Analysis - Sivia

      - Emergence - Jonhson

      thread
    2. engi_nerdApr 2018
      I keep a wide variety of references around this desk. Some of my favorites:

      Manuel Lima's "Visual Complexity", "The Book of Circles", and "The Book of Trees". These are useful as references and as visualization inspiration.

      Jacques Bertin's "Semiology of Graphics". Gorgeous and immensely useful.

      Desmond and Nicholas Higham's "MATLAB Guide, 3rd Edition", and Yair Altman's "Accelerating MATLAB Performance". Both are invaluable for serious MATLAB work.

      Titus A. Beu's book on Numerical Programming is very good as a reference.

      For anyone needing to work on military simulations, "Engineering Principles of Combat Modeling and Distributed Simulation" by Tolk is the best reference I have found on the subject.

      And TAOCP and CLRS are here for reference purposes as well.

      thread
    3. tomdreSep 2017
      I really liked "Visual Complexity" by Manuel Lima:

      https://www.amazon.com/Visual-Complexity-Mapping-Patterns-In...

      thread

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