Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

by Edward R. Tufte (Author)

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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. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.

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With Visual Explanations, Edward R. Tufte adds a third volume to his indispensable series on information display. The first, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, which focuses on charts and graphs that display numerical information, virtually defined the field. The second, Envisioning Information, explores similar territory but with an emphasis on maps and cartography. Visual Explanations 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.")

Like its predecessors, Visual Explanations 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 Challenger (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.

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Tufte is the master of visualization. You can immediately add this new work alongside his previous gems, Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983) and Envisioning Information (1990, both from Graphics). Tufte's discussions take place in a world where specific software and certain parameters of the web don't exist?we all know such limitations are always changing anyway. His historical perspective allows Tufte to demonstrate simple, timeless guidelines that are independent of special stylesheets or the latest upgrade from Netscape. In this volume, Tufte illustrates not only traditional areas such as statistics, repetitions, and multiples but also magic and compositional allegories.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Hardcover: 156 pages
Publisher: Graphics Press (February 1, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0961392126
ISBN-13: 978-0961392123
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Ryan

Great for Engineers

August 16, 2013

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My fiance wanted this as a present, she's an engineer.

While engineers may be great at making great results, presenting the information is still a challenge (especially to customers and management).

She really likes this book. It provides a great guide on how to present information so that other engineers and the 'layman' can understand it. Data presentation can be quite a problem for engineers, and this book does a fantastic job at providing methods and means for producing useful and meaningful visual representations of findings.

I'm not an engineer 'per se,' but I'm a degreed Mathematician. I flipped through the book, and it seems as though the book does a very good job at helping us that may be poor at presenting our technical ideas in a way such that it is easily comprehensible to others - in particular others that are not mathematicians or engineers.

This aside, the limited reading I did was pretty easy, and his ideas and points were easy to comprehend and well articulated.

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Dr. Nancy L. Nicholson

If you can afford only one graphics book, it should be this one!

July 2, 2018

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This, and all its companion volumes is the platinum standard for graphics. It is simultaneously an homage to those who have gone before Tufte, with elegant production values. As such, it’s a brilliant history of ideas. It also shows how still images, combined with video frames, can convey information of a dynamic process. Dont sit down at your computer without it in easy reach.

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Adam F. Jewell

Superbly presented. Experience the magic of Tuft!

April 28, 2000

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This masterpiece contains explanations of "magic" and illusions, displays of scientific charts, graphs, and maps as well as analysis of photographs and historical drawings. Tuft illustrates the need to present information in alternate formats taking in to account a variety of contexts and perspectives in which it will be consumed. Numerous examples, illustrations and descriptions are included which detail the importance and methods used to encode information in a pictorial medium, enabling an audience to identify critical relevant details of that which is depicted, including relative size, amount, scale, and time, whichever may be appropriate for a given subject. An interesting and well documented commentary is presented about the Space Shuttle tragedy, which illustrates just how important information design can be, and the dramatic effects, which may result down the line if not proper consideration is not given to such a basic issue.
The methods and subjects covered are applicable to a variety of media, and subject matter including, marketing and promotional materials, web design and information presentation, the presentation of scientific data, and general photography. No matter what your occupation or ambition, if it involves conveying information in a graphical format, this book will provide insight and examples that will help you get your point across more effectively, and enhance the end user experience.

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Peggy

A visual treat! Very informative!

July 17, 2018

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This is an amazing book! It's well thought-out and the concepts are clearly presented. It's a visual treat as well as being extremely informative. This is one of my favorite books! Please mark if you find my review helpful. Thank you so much!

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but does not seem to have a systematic outline of principles of good visual representation

April 10, 2018

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The book provides a variety of examples, but does not seem to have a systematic outline of principles of good visual representation. I looked at examples, but was unable to form any kind of principles to follow for future work.

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sscarlett

infographics before it was a thing

August 14, 2018

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Such an interesting topic- information, from maps to demographics to charts and other artistically portrayed information, that have been graphically documented in compelling images over the centuries. Info as art.

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R. S. Lloyd

Tufte is the first to shine a bright light on the dark and dusty area of visualizing data in an engaging manner.

November 23, 2015

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Tufte owns this field because he earned it. Pissed off at all the dry and boring expressions of data, Tufte wages a one-man war against snoozing in front of numbers. I have all of his books because anyone who cares about good design should have them. Buy them and you will understand.

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Flybysaint

Another book for class

May 28, 2013

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This was an interesting class. This book showed different images and sometimes you had to explain what was going on, but in this class we had to have a broader aspect in explaining because maybe we would have to explain to a certain culture and they would see it in another way. Good book. I kept it.

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Classic book in the visualization field.

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When I finished, I wondered, "What was this book supposed to be about?". It seemed very disjointed and was nowhere near as good as Tufte's other book, "The Visual...Read more

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