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Title: Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 0-9613921-2-6 Publisher: Graphics Press Pub. Date: February, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Readers Delight
Comment: Oh my - Mr. Tufte just carries on producing one fine piece of work after another.
This third book in the triology on "information presentation" is as splendid as the previous two books. In this volume the emphasis is, as the title suggests, on methods for creating powerful illustrations and graphics that could help you present your knowledge in a non-disputable way.
The most intriguing section in this book without doubt the chapter on the Challenger disaster in 1986. The rocket engineers back then had worries about the launch on Jan 28. However they were not at all able to communicate their worries to NASA and so it ended... In a worrying few number of pages, Mr. Tufte, dissects the data presented to NASA by the engineers and creates a information redesign which makes it clear to anyone that the launch should have been postponed.
I still belive that book 2, "Envisioning Information" is the most required. Buy that book and if you love is (as I do), then buy the other two books as well.
The layout of this book is fully in thread with the others in the series. Beautiful, engaging, ingenious, etc. The print quality is second to none - you really have a feeling that the crew behind these books have been nursing their babies.
So Mr. Tufte - where is number four in the series?
Rating: 5
Summary: Every software engineer/teacher/illustrator/editor needs it
Comment: Oh, lovely! For those who know Tufte's earlier books, all I need to say is "he's written another."
It looks like he publishes one every seven years ("The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" in 1983, "Envisioning Information" in 1990) so I think I'm going to budget $0.02 per day and get them all.
Perhaps the most significant chapter is his analysis of how bad graphic presentation contributed to the loss of the space shuttle "Challenger." Basically, he believes that data were available which could and should have led to a decision to cancel the launch, but that the engineers failed to communicate it to the decision-makers. And he shows exactly how and why they failed.
Left brain? right brain? Tufte shows us visual elegance in the service of quantitative thinking.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't buy until you SEE it! You will be disappointed.
Comment: This book appeared fascinating to me. The book reviews appeared fascinating to me. But when I actually saw all of the pages inside I was really disappointed. Don't buy this one until you see it - you just may be disappointed too.
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Title: Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 0961392118 Publisher: Graphics Press Pub. Date: May, 1990 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 0961392142 Publisher: Graphics Press Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: The Cognitive Style of Power Point by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 0961392150 Publisher: Graphics Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 0961392134 Publisher: Graphics Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: Information Graphics: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference by Robert L. Harris ISBN: 0195135326 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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