Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and NarrativeVisual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative. Practical applications and examples include statistical graphics, charts for making important decisions in engineering and medicine, technical manuals, diagrams, design of computer interfaces and websites and on-line manuals, animations and scientific visualizations, techniques for talks, and design strategies for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentations, and computer screens. The use of visual evidence in deciding to launch the space shuttle Challenger is discussed in careful detail. Video snapshots show redesigns of a supercomputer animation of a thunderstorm. The book is designed and printed to the highest standards, with luscious color throughout and four built-in flaps for showing motion and before/after effects. |
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Page 28
A few weeks after the epidemic , Snow reported his results in a first - person
narrative , more like a laboratory notebook or a personal journal than a modern
research paper with its pristine , reconstructed science . Postmodern research
claims ...
A few weeks after the epidemic , Snow reported his results in a first - person
narrative , more like a laboratory notebook or a personal journal than a modern
research paper with its pristine , reconstructed science . Postmodern research
claims ...
Page 37
As a comparison between the two weekly charts shows , the results depend on
the arbitrary choice of time periods — a sign that we are seeing method not
reality . ... A further difficulty arises , a result of fast computing . It is easy now to
sort ...
As a comparison between the two weekly charts shows , the results depend on
the arbitrary choice of time periods — a sign that we are seeing method not
reality . ... A further difficulty arises , a result of fast computing . It is easy now to
sort ...
Page 86
Three classes of shapes result , varying with the angle and orientation of the
cube ( lighter color ) relative to the projection plane ( darker ) , as arrayed in
parallel columns at left . Shown are cubes entering via the vertex , the edge , and
the ...
Three classes of shapes result , varying with the angle and orientation of the
cube ( lighter color ) relative to the projection plane ( darker ) , as arrayed in
parallel columns at left . Shown are cubes entering via the vertex , the edge , and
the ...
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User Review - KirkLowery - LibraryThingAn eye-opening read. As a linguistic who deals with databases, this book dramatically improved my writing and design of graphics for publication. Read full review
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User Review - jasonli - LibraryThingIn "Visual Explanations," Tufte walks us through various case studies of visual explanations (charts, graphs, graphics, diagrams and maps). Some of the case studies are about great works, while others ... Read full review
Contents
Images and Quantities | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 27 |
Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design | 73 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative |
| Authors | Edward R. Tufte, Tufte |
| Illustrated by | Bonnie Scranton, Dmitry Krasny, Weilin Wu |
| Contributor | Kerr White Health Care Collection |
| Edition | 4, illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | Graphics Press, 1997 |
| ISBN | 0961392126, 9780961392123 |
| Length | 156 pages |
| Subjects | › Mathematics / Graphic Methods Social Science / Research |
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