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. It mainly consists of text and ideas taken from his three books on the subject along with some additional material of my own.
It’s just the one page — the links go to other (non-Tufte) topics. Via Kottke.
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…