Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative Export

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TY - BOOK ID - citeulike:126681 L3 - citeulike-article-id:126681 N2 - {With <I>Visual Explanations</I>, Edward R. Tufte adds a third volume to his indispensable series on information display. The first, <I>The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,</I> which focuses on charts and graphs that display numerical information, virtually defined the field. The second, <I>Envisioning Information,</I> explores similar territory but with an emphasis on maps and cartography. <I>Visual Explanations</I> centers on dynamic data--information that changes over time. (Tufte has described the three books as being about, respectively, "pictures of numbers, pictures of nouns, and pictures of verbs.") <P> Like its predecessors, <I>Visual Explanations</I> is both intellectually stimulating and beautiful to behold. Tufte, a self-publisher, takes extraordinary pains with design and production. The book ranges through a variety of topics, including the explosion of the space shuttle <I>Challenger</I> (which could have been prevented, Tufte argues, by better information display on the part of the rocket's engineers), magic tricks, a cholera epidemic in 19th-century London, and the principle of using "the smallest effective difference" to display distinctions in data. Throughout, Tufte presents ideas with crystalline clarity and illustrates them in exquisitely rendered samples.} SN - 0961392126 TI - Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative PB - Graphics Press KW - visualisation AU - Tufte, Edward PY - 1997/02/01/ UR - http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=citeulike09-20&amp;path=ASIN/0961392126 ER -