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Loading... Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrativeby Edward R. Tufte
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. During years of combing thru data visualization books, I had seen this book mentioned various times. Finally found a used, hardbound edition in excellent quality. I look forward to paging thru the book in detail during a break. I got a lot less out of this than I did from The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, which is to say still a fair amount. I thought it was an enjoyable read nonetheless and certainly worth spending a few evenings on. The main thrust of the book seemed to be that it's important to show the reader information in a way that maximally enhances their understanding. Beyond that there's a list of examples of what to do and not do, and I'll remember those down the line when I'm looking at or making pictures. Wow, is this an excellent book. It helped my presentation of data skills, and beefed up the Power Point approach as well. I abhor presentations, as the facts are what I am after. The ability to marry up prose with data and present, this is an important skill for all today. The nicest surprise was the ability to understand how to maximize color in a presentation of information. no reviews | add a review
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This book 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. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)302.23Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Social Interaction Communication Media (Means of communication)LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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