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"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
I imagine the little graphs on the lower-left corner of every section of the USA Today would drive Edward Tufte nuts. This man has dedicated his entire life to the art form of charts and graphs — what works, what doesn’t, and how to make them better. This all comes together in this book. Far from dry reading, I was glued to it.
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Tufte Synopsis
Graphics and Web Design Based on Edward Tufte's Principles: We've talked about the greatness of Edward Tufte before. He's brilliant, but his books are less than approachable. Enter this guy: This is an outline of Edward Tufte's pioneering work on the use of graphics to display quantitative information. …
Thoughts on PowerPoint
The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide: This is a short but interesting piece on the "damage" that PowerPoint has done to discourse and presentation skills in the last ten years. "Once upon a time, a party host could send dread through the room by saying, 'Let me show you the…
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