I think some of the confusion that has arisen from Ed Tufte's work is that people read his book and then want to go make cool graphs of ...

damn lies and good graphs

maybe they're right that crappy chartjunk graphs are better than crappy non-chartjunk graphs. But I don't think it's appropriate...

From Dataviz , via Revolutions . Obama recently appointed ET to the Recovery Independent Advisory Commission. Excelsior.

Jaegerman's graphics

Edward Tufte has a collection of news graphics by Megan Jaegerman here