The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780961392109 (096139210X)
Publish date: February 1st 1992
Publisher: Graphics Pr
Pages no: 197
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Reference,
Computer Science,
Programming,
Science,
Technical,
Business,
Art,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Design,
Mathematics
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Edward Tufte is brilliant. His books, including this one, are artwork disguised as a textbook. The purpose of all three is to explain both good and bad ways of explaining information but they are so much more than that. There is a rich history interwoven in the books' pages. The examples are so inte...
Everyone should read this book. Although I am not yet adept at creating data-rich, well-designed visual displays of information (and frankly, I blame spawn-of-satan Microsoft), Tufte's books at least have taught me to recognize the inferiority of other's attempts (and the limitations of Microsoft's...
A fascinating, elegant, and beautiful book.
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