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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I have all five of Tufte's books on graphic display and, while it is interesting, I find this one the least enjoyable. This is partly down to the scrappy layout and structure, presumably trying to emulate a notebook style of information presentation. At times it seems repetitive, and makes strange claims for disruptive typesetting. no reviews | add a review
"Edward Tufte is a statistician/visualizer/artist, taught data analyis and policy making at Princeton and Yale 32 years, and also taught his one-day course on Presenting Data and Information to 328,000 students 1994-2020. He wrote, designed, and self-published 5 books on data visualization. The New York Times described ET as the 'Leonardo da Vinci of data,' and Bloomberg as the 'Galileo of graphics.' He has designed and constructed a 234-acre sculpture park, studio, and tree farm in northwest Connecticut, which will show his artworks and remain open space in perpetuity, and founded Graphics Press, ET Modern Gallery/Studio, Hogpen Hill Farms." -- No library descriptions found. |
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His first volume is amazing. The second is good, although the fourth is mostly a somewhat improved version of similar material. The third left no impression on me at all. And this fifth seems to be written to a much different, and far lower, standard. Much of the time, I simply had no idea of what new point he was trying to make (nor, therefore, how it might affect how I create or consume material intended to communicate facts).
I try to read Tufte's books with my brain firmly engaged; but even so this one just left me wondering what it was all about. ( )