Scientists and engineers have a tremendous capacity to
detect, track, measure and otherwise observe phenomena of all kinds. This growing
capacity is perhaps their most powerful tool. But it presents problems, too,
because it is no easy task to marshal this flood of data and present it in ways
that others — or sometimes even they themselves — can understand and make use
of it.
Now Felice C. Frankel and Angela H. DePace are offering some
help. They bill their new book, “Visual Strategies,” as a guide to graphics for
scientists and engineers, but it will be useful for anyone who wants to make
clear presentations of data of any kind.