Edward Tufte
Edward Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufteis an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth14 March 1942
CountryUnited States of America
thinking style important
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
style cartoon tools
PowerPoint is like being trapped in the style of early Egyptian flatland cartoons rather than using the more effective tools of Renaissance visual representation.
data shows
Above all else show the data.
space information empty
It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.
cost realizing process
We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.
beautiful writing thinking
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
ideas long forever
The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.
thinking design stupidity
Good design is clear thinking made visible, bad design is stupidity made visible
nature law differences
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.
beautiful practice design
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
numbers wrong-number statistics
If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
truth mean method
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
technology should harm
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
discipline interesting world
The world is much more interesting than any one discipline.