December 17, 2011 - 8:11pm

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on December 18, 2011 - 1:41am

The important criterion for a graph is not simply how fast we can see a result; rather it is whether through the use of the graph we can see something that would have been harder to see otherwise or that could not have been seen at all.
~ William Cleveland, The Elements of Graphing Data, Chapter 2

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