This work's second chapter, on  integrity, defines a "lie factor" as the ratio of the size of effect shown to the size of the effect computed, and this book famously extol s Charles Joseph Minard's time-series depiction of the size of Napoleon's  army during the Russian campaign as possibly "the best statistical graphic ever drawn."
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This book's first chapter praises the innovations of J.H. Lambert and Wil iam Playfair, and in an analysis of "Puzzles and Hierarchy," this book quotes Paul Valery to say that "Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information