Edward Tufte
Edward Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufteis an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth14 March 1942
CountryUnited States of America
technology should harm
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.
truth mean method
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
numbers wrong-number statistics
If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
nature law differences
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space, time point.
nature thinking law
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
ideas long forever
The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.
computer power-of-love overhead
If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
artist editing design
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.
cost realizing process
We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.
space information empty
It is not how much empty space there is, but rather how it is used. It is not how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.
curious minors consequence
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
letters helping truthful
If your words aren't truthful, the finest optically letter-spaced typography won't help,
looks ifs
If you’re told what to look for, you can’t see anything else.
simplicity subtle distinction
Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.