Sapping Attention: Data visualization rules, 1915 In 1915, a year after the 1910 census's atlas was published, the Census bureau circulated a memo to their advisors with a set of proposed rules for graphical presentation. They are a sort of style guide for the Census in particular, but they are obviously transferable to the general case. http://bit.ly/1kBClU6 Source: http://sappingattention.blogspot.com/2014/08/data-visualization-rules-1915.html See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/1kBClU6+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: https://bitly.com/pages/sidebar Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra