Cliff Atkinson
Beyond Bullet Points: Using MS PowerPoint to Create Presentations that Inform, Motivate and Engage e-book (Safari)
Jacques Bertin
Stephen Few
"Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe: Selecting the Right Graph for Your Message" September 18, 2004 http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/ie/the_right_graph.pdf
Nominal Comparison: categorical subdivisions - bar graph
Time series: value changing through time - line graph
Ranking: relative performance of items, sort in descending or ascending order - horizontal bar
Part to whole: individual categories as ratio to whole - vertical bar
Deviation: 2 sets of values differ from each other - line graph for overall pattern
Range: frequency distribution across a range - vertical bar graph
Correlation: both scales quantitative - scatter plot
"Our Irresistible Fascination with All Things Circular" http://www.perceptualedge.com/articles/visual_business_intelligence/our_fascination_with_all_things_circular.pdf
Garr Reynolds
Presentation zen design: simple design principles and techniques to enhance your presentations e-book (Safari)
Hans Rosling
GapMinder: for a fact based world view
Stats that shape your world view: TED Talk, Video
Ben Schneiderman
Visual Information Seeking Mantra: "The Eyes Have It: A Task by Data Type Taxonomy for Information Visualizations" July 1996
Stanford Vis Group
Matthias Shapiro
"Once Upon a Stacked Time Series", in Beautiful Visualization:Looking at Data Through the Eyes of Experts, Eds. Julie Steele & Noah Ilinksy, CEAS TK7882 .I6 B427 2010 and online through Safari E-Books
Question + Visual Data + Context = Story
Edward Tufte
Nathan Yau
Visualize This" e-book (Safari)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by 
Envisioning Information by 
Designing Data Visualizations by 
The Non-Designer's Design Book by 
Effective Data Visualization by 