Edward R. Tufte
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| Title | : | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information |
| Author | : | Edward R. Tufte |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | 2nd |
| Pages | : | Pages: 197 pages |
| Published | : | 2001 by Graphics (first published 1983) |
| Categories | : | Design. Nonfiction. Science. Business. Reference |
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The classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis. Design of the high-resolution displays, small multiples. Editing and improving graphics. The data-ink ratio. Time-series, relational graphics, data maps, multivariate designs. Detection of graphical deception: design variation vs. data variation. Sources of deception. Aesthetics and data graphical displays.This is the second edition of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Recently published, this new edition provides excellent color reproductions of the many graphics of William Playfair, adds color to other images, and includes all the changes and corrections accumulated during 17 printings of the first edition.
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| Original Title: | The Visual Display of Quantitative Information |
| ISBN: | 0961392142 (ISBN13: 9780961392147) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.41 From 7088 Users | 486 ReviewsRate Appertaining To Books The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
This book was a joy to read.The book is essentially about graphical display of information, like the graphs we put in our powerpoints and maps in our texts. It is not a gallery of modern and beautiful visualizations as could be expected, rather, it takes on the history and creation of visualizing data in the 1600s and forward, and giving some general principles that goes for all display of information. He talks about data pr. square centimeter and suggest that the human eye can see differencesLight read, though sometimes the book judged me for having used histograms to display about 5 datapoints. He would even make me quantify how intensely I shouldve just used a table by calculating his waste of ink data-ink ratio. Above all else show the data.The principle is the basis for a theory of data graphics The book is a nice collection of the good, the bad, and the really bad graphs. Among the bad are artsy graphics, that for example use the height of three-dimensional objects like oil
Most of Tufte's critiques of ugly and dishonest data visualisation have been long internalised, in our age of 538 and "data journalism". But this {art/architecture/graphic design}-informed book is still an engaging read, despite occasional bursts of pomposity.
This is a book about graphs.How, you ask, could anyone write a book about graphs, let alone read one? Surely you've never found the sex appeal of a bar chart, the seductiveness of a scatterplot. Well my friend, you simply have never realized the power of a well-designed graph. Tufte took on the challenge of making visual information interesting decades ago, and it's still considered one of the top 100 books of the 20th century. He shows examples of what the best displays and worst displays are
I discovered Tufte when I was collecting movable books and this showed up in my bookstore with a pop-up pyramid in it. I found out later that he had self-published this title because no printer or publisher he approached wanted to do the pop-up and he was determined to have it.It's a wonderful explication of the ways in which to analyze data and figure out how to present it in clean, efficient ways that slide the information into waiting minds. Essential.And anybody who enjoys this book will
I read this at the wrong time, without really much appreciating all the information presented. To get the most of this book, you should already be working with data, and facing the design decisions treated here.
Interesting subject matter but incredibly pompous author.
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