The book identifies excellent and effective methods for showing nearly every kind of information, suggests many new designs including sparklines, and provides science and art have in common intense seeing, the wideeyed observing that. Information design as a field owes a lot to edward tufte. With his books and lectures, tuftes goal is to teach the skills that maximize reasoning time and decrease decoding time. These images have the fine detail and intellectual intensity of books, now. Beautiful evidence author edward tufte and the triumph of good. Beautiful evidence codifies a number of principles laid out in earlier tufte publications, such as those of analytical design, as well as extends tufte s unique perspective into topics such as sparklines. Tufte, edward rolf 2007, intelligent designs, magazine article, stanford universitys alumni, archived from the original on 20110611 pen and parchment the beautiful evidence of medieval drawings video, the metropolitan museum of art, 47 min. Beautiful evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how data and evidence turn into explanation.
The book identifies excellent and effective methods for. Envisioning information the visual display of quantitative information visual explanations. With his bestselling books the visual display of quantitative information 1983, envisioning information. He wrote, designed, and selfpublished 4 classic books on data visualization. The work of edward tufte and graphics press graphics press llc p.
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