Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Author(s): Edward R. Tufte (Author)
Publisher: Graphics Press
Publication Date: January 14, 1997
Edition: First Edition
Language: English
Print length: 156 pages
ISBN-10: 1930824157
ISBN-13: 9781930824157
Book Description
Describes design strategies – the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers – for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause, and effect. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Author(s): Edward R. Tufte (Author)
Publisher: Graphics Press
Publication Date: January 14, 1997
Language: English
Print length: 156 pages
ISBN-10: 0961392126
ISBN-13: 9780961392123
Book Description
Describes design strategies – the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers – for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause, and effect. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Tufte is the master of visualization. You can immediately add this new work alongside his previous gems, Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983) and Envisioning Information (1990, both from Graphics). Tufte’s discussions take place in a world where specific software and certain parameters of the web don’t exist?we all know such limitations are always changing anyway. His historical perspective allows Tufte to demonstrate simple, timeless guidelines that are independent of special stylesheets or the latest upgrade from Netscape. In this volume, Tufte illustrates not only traditional areas such as statistics, repetitions, and multiples but also magic and compositional allegories. Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Review
For more than 15 years, Edward R. Tufte has been on a crusade to educate people who want to explain the world visually to others … In his new volume, Tufte, who teaches information design at Yale, is once again full of compelling and amusing examples, intelligently collected and attractively displayed … The printing once again is lavish and beautiful, and the book is alive with instructive visual fun… —The New York Times Book Review, Richard J. Meislin
This third Tufte book on the display of information is not for novices: it provides pictures of verbs, cause and effect, and other dynamic patterns of information display, exploring how visual evidence influences computer interfaces, design strategies, and how information is transferred and represented. This should hold appeal beyond the arts, into the scientific and computer realms. —
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