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Title: Visual & Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Decision Making by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 0-9613921-3-4 Publisher: Graphics Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Part of another book
Comment: "This booklet ... reproduces chapter 2 of my recent book Visual Explanations ..." (quote from the first page).
The material is outstanding, as is all of Tufte's, but I was very disappointed to pay for something I already had.
Rating: 5
Summary: Graphs done right vs. graphs done wrong
Comment: This is a 31 page pamphlet reproducing chapter 2 of Tufte's 1997 "Visual Explanation:images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative". It contains two case studies: doing it right illustrated by John Snow's famous Cholera investigation and doing it wrong showing charts used to determine the ill-fated challenger accident (could almost be renamed as an example of liing with charts what what to suspect).
Production values are unusually high (which we'd expect from Tufte) with heavy paper, well printed, excellent illustration and color pictures. The pages are large 8.5"x11". The only thing I'm concerned about is the durability of the cover pages (paper back).
Two really good eamples, one good/one bad, of the use of charts.
Low price, 5 stars.
Rating: 5
Summary: Read his booklet and you will want more from Tufte
Comment: In "Visual & Statistical Thinking", Edward Tufte (a professor at Yale University, where he teaches statistical evidence and information design), provides two case study-like topics that explores how graphs and images provide better decision making. This clearly written booklet reiterates his focus on his other books: (1) The task in making decisions based on evidence is understanding how thing work (cause and effect), and (2) making decisions based on evidence requires appropriate display of that evidence. Good charts and images help reveal knowledge relevant to making informed decisions.
This booklet was a required text for a knowledge management course. I recommend this and all his books if you are an information architect, web designer, graphic artist, or anyone who works with providing and displaying data and information to others. Well worth the $$$
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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: Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative by Edward R. Tufte ISBN: 0961392126 Publisher: Graphics Press Pub. Date: February, 1997 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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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 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: 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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