Gordon, I., & Finch, S. (2015). Statistician Heal Thyself: Have We Lost the Plot? Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics: A Joint Publication of American Statistical Association, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Interface Foundation of North America, 24(4), 1210–1229.
I think graphical display of data is much easier to parse than tabled data
a high quality graph should be able to be interpreted without elaboration
Principle 3:
Use good alignment on a common scale for quantities to be compared.