Infographic: The Dragons of Eden Chart Redesign via New York Magazine

In Beautiful Evidence, Edward Tufte remakes a crude ggraph that first appears in Carl Sagan's The Dragon's Eden. In the original, bunched-up labels mislead the reader, making inappropriate visual connections (the Tyrannosaurus looks too close to the gorilla, for example), and the heavy frame dominates the composition...

Original Source: Infographic: The Dragons of Eden Chart Redesign via New York Magazine