Rereading a print out of Howard Wainer's _Understanding Graphs and Tables_, it's what had me searching murder rates and El Salvador. Wainer writes key phrases I should remember: an "orienting attitude", a "redesign task must first try to develop and understanding of purpose..."
http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS397Z/Midterm/wainer_table_design.pdf
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