The prob­lem: “pre­sent­ing large amounts of infor­ma­tion in a way that is com­pact, accu­rate, ade­quate for the pur­pose, and easy to understand”.

The solu­tion: Edward Tufte (actu­ally, the solu­tion is “to develop a con­sis­tent approach to the dis­play of graph­ics which enhances its dis­sem­i­na­tion, accu­racy, and ease of com­pre­hen­sion”… but that’s not as catchy).

Yes, it’s an arti­cle out­lin­ing Edward Tufte’s “work on the  use of graph­ics to dis­play quan­ti­ta­tive infor­ma­tion”, as gleaned from his three books: The Visual Dis­play of Quan­ti­ta­tive Infor­ma­tion, Visual Expla­na­tions, and Envi­sion­ing Infor­ma­tion.