The other day Jesse drew my attention to this curious Beautiful News page. While the effort to focus on positive news and uplifting trends is greatly appreciated, some visualization might benefit from a little “Tuftefying” to better adhere to Tufte’s design principles for good visual information representation. An effective visualization should focus on the content by minimizing distracting architecture and maximizing the data-ink ratio, establish credibility by citing detailed sources, and avoid comparisons of areas of circles or other non-standard figures as well as unconventional directions for temporal data.