Edward Tufte
Edward Tufte is an influential information designer. He is best known for his work on use, and misuse, of graphic design, presented in his three self-published books. He has created his own small press (Graphics Press) to produce these books on graphics and design.
Tufte argues that information should be made as dense as possible, he publicized the term "chart junk" to refer to irrelevant and distracting images included in charts and graphs.
Tufte is also a professor at Yale University, where he teaches statistics, graphic design, and political economy. He prepared evidence for several jury trials and previously did consulting work for everyone from IBM to New Jersey Transit but was disappointed with how ineffective his work was, and now spends his time writing books and giving public lectures.
He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences. He founded Graphics Press in 1983.
Bibliography
Early in his career, Tufte wrote three books that used statistics to analyze political issues:
- 1970: The Quantitative Analysis of Social Problems. ISBN 0201076101
- 1973: Size & Democracy (with Robert A. Dahl). ISBN 0804708347
- 1980: Political Control of the Economy. ISBN 0691021805
The following books, all published by Tufte's own Graphics Press, make up the core of Tufte's work, documenting how to best display different forms of information with copious examples and commentary:
- 1983: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (pictures of numbers). ISBN 096139210X
- 1990: Envisioning Information (pictures of nouns). ISBN 0961392118
- 1997: Visual Explanations (pictures of verbs). ISBN 0961392126
- Chapter 2 published as Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making. ISBN 0961392134
- Forthcoming: Beautiful Evidence
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