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
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The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
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At its heart, my work is about how to think clearly and deeply, using evidence, and all that has to pass through some presentation state.
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In emphasizing evidential quality and beauty, I also want to move the practices of analytical design far away from the practices of propaganda, marketing, graphic design, and commercial art.
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It's not that PowerPoint brought the Columbia down, but the method of presentation broke up the argument into tiny fragments, and it's intensely hierarchical-no sentences, just little phrases.
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The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence.
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Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users'
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The point of the essay is to change things.
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If the statistics are boring, you've got the wrong numbers.
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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.
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The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.
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If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
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We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.
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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.
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A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.