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
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Second, simply use PowerPoint as a slide projector rather than an information tool.
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Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.
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Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter is a failure of design.
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There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
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Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.
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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.
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A metaphor for good information design is a map. Hold any diagram against a map and see how it compares.
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The idea is that the content is the interface, the information is the interface, not computer-administrative debris.
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Rather, the point is to recognize the tightness between seeing and thinking on an intellectual level not just a metaphorical level.
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Beautiful Evidence follows a growing concern in my work: assessing the quality of evidence and of finding out the truth.
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It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it's intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases.
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The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
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At its heart, my work is about how to think clearly and deeply, using evidence, and all that has to pass through some presentation state.
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The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence.