“Data is transformed into graphics to understand. A map, a diagram are documents to be interrogated. But understanding means integrating all of the data. In order to do this it’s necessary to reduce it to a small number of elementary data. This is the objective of the “data treatment” be it graphic or mathematic.”

— Jacques Bertin

About the true value of graphics
Interview with Jacques Bertin (2003)

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French geographer and cartographer 1918–2010

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