Yes! Adam reported that Edward Tufte's fourth book is in queue. Tufte's books were a revelation for me when my father-in-law first showed them to me after taking his class about 10 years ago. Tufte's class was one of the best $300 I ever spent, and I highly recommend the class that is held in a variety of lactions. In the class, Tufte described:
The Grand Principles of Information Display
First Grand Principle: Enforce Wise Visual Comparisons: always ask "Compared with What?"
Second Grand Principle: Show Causality.
Third Grand Principle: Use Multivariate Data
Fourth Grand Principle: Completely Integrate Word, Number and Image.
Fifth Grand Principle: Quality, Relevance and Integrity of the Content. If your numbers are boring you have the wrong numbers. Design won't help, it is too late.
Sixth Grand Principle: Information for Comparison Should be Put Side by Side., Stack in space not time
Seventh Grand Principle: Use Small Multiples.
The Eighth Grand Principle: Don't Dequantify. Good design is clear thinking, made visible.
When we think about dealing with vast amounts of security data in a large enterprise and mining it for information for a variety of audiences: developers, security, risk management, executive, management, and so on, SEM, SIM, and *IDS vendors would do well to keep these principles front and center.
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