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Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
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Envisioning Information

by Edward R. Tufte

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Beautiful book, important message.
  mdstarr | Sep 11, 2011 |
The three seminal books by Edward Tufte all address visual information presentation with a focus on accessibility and usefulness. The first addresses presentation of numeric data and different diagramming techniques. The second has a broader scope, including maps and other kinds of information, with a fine discussion of strategies for visual design. The third book is about visual representations of processes, causes and explanations. All three are unusually beautiful and well designed by the author, thus serving as good examples of their own topics.
  jonas.lowgren | Aug 10, 2011 |
As a non-mathematician with a serious problem with diagrams (like a lot of librarians, I connect much better with lists) this was going to be a challenge for me. But every page was a pleasure. Tuftes believes that complex information can be easily understood if presented in the right way. He applies the same principles to his writing which is clear without being dry. I'm still a long way from feeling comfortable creating anything more complex than a table, but I definitely feel I've made a start (and I'll eliminate those gridlines!). ( )
  Schopflin | Feb 25, 2011 |
Available at the CIIA, College Hall 310, WWU and Western Libraries
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  ciia | Sep 28, 2010 |
My fave of the 'original Tufte trilogy'. Awesome concepts around representing information in clear, truthful, and accurate ways. A lot of focus on map-based graphics, but concepts are applicable to other types as well. Sometimes a bit of high-and-mighty writing, but it's still eye-opening. ( )
  Murdocke23 | Jan 31, 2010 |
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for my teacher, Inge Druckey
for my parents, Edward E Tufte and Virginia James Tufte
and for Moshe, Tanya, Charlie, Natasha, Babar and Frida
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Even though we navigate daily through a perceptual world of three spatial dimensions and reason occasionally about higher dimensional arenas with mathematical ease, the world portrayed on our information displays is caught up in the two-dimensionality of endless flatlands of paper and video screen.
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A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. -- Rudolf Arnheim

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