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"Edward R. Tufte"

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Blogger James said...

I bought the Visual Display of Quant. Info. book a year or two ago and then a week or two later I got a post card in the mail advertising one of his talks. I NEVER GAVE THEM MY ADDRESS. How did Tufte know? It was creepy.

6/14/07, 3:39 PM

Blogger Ron Guhname said...

I like Guerry's 19th century crime maps of France:

www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Papers/guerry.pdf

6/14/07, 4:15 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Beautiful Evidence is worth flipping through in the bookstore, but you don't need to buy it. With each successive book, Tufte's message has drifted away from data analysis, and have become showcases for the pretty things he has collected. Beautiful Evidence is more a fetish object than an argument.

6/15/07, 4:13 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't Cleveland's "Visualizing Data:" better than Tufte's works?
Cleveland is a statistician after all.

6/15/07, 2:40 PM

Blogger Jedster said...

I'm totally confused. How is the gettysburg address pp anti-tufte? (or perhaps you're being sarcastic?)

I took one look at it and it seems 100% consistent with tufte's discomfort with powerpoint style presentations (unless you think it was intended to promote rather than discourage pp usage).

when i did more research, it turns out that tufte uses the presentation in his courses and has even invited the author to speak to his classes.

btw, i've taken courses from tufte while in college, and he's a pretty cool guy, he was one of the best teachers that i've had.

6/16/07, 3:13 PM

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