Tufte

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Tufte






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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
(1983)

• Graphical Practice
• graphical excellence
• graphical integrity
• Theory of Data Graphics
• data-ink and graphical redesign
• chartjunk vibrations, grids, and ducks
• data-ink maximization and graphical design
• multifunctioning graphical elements
• data density and small multiples
• aesthetics and technique in data graphical design

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
(1983)

• Graphical Excellence
• that which gives the viewer the greatest number
  of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink
  in the smallest space

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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
(1983)

• Graphical Integrity
• representation of numbers should be directly
  proportional to the numerical quantities
  represented
• clear, detailed, and thorough labeling should be
  used to defeat graphical distortion and ambiguity
• show data variation, not design variation
• graphics must not quote out of context
• Graphical elegance is found
• in simplicity of design
• and complexity of data

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Tufte's Rules, after Casselman, abridged
http//www.ams.org/new-in-math/cover/visual1.html

• Tone down secondary elements of a picture layer
  the figure to produce a visual hierarchy.
• Replace coded labels in the figure by direct
  ones.
• Produce emphasis by using the smallest possible
  effective distinctions.
• Eliminate all unnecessary parts of a figure.
• Use small multiples numerous repetitions of a
  single figure with slight variations.
• Make the graphics carry a story.

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Envisioning Information (1990)

• Escaping Flatland
• Micro/Macro Readings
• Layering and Separation
• Small Multiples
• Color and Information
• Narratives of Space and Time

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Visual Explanations Images and Quantities,
Evidence, and Narrative (1997)

• Images and Quantities
• Visual and Statistical Thinking Displays of
  Evidence for Making Decisions
• Explaining Magic Pictorial Instructions and
  Disinformation Design
• The Smallest Effective Distance
• Parallelism Repetition and Change, Comparison
  and Change
• Multiples in Space and Time
• Visual Confections Juxtapositions form the Ocean
  of the Streams of Story

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Dense Information and Computers
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Dense Information and Computers