Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing of first edition. Fine, As New condition in Fine, As New dust jacket. Another wonderful book by Tufte about how things look and why, 4to. 213 pp. including a narrative index.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Beautiful Evidence

Publisher

Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT

Publication Date

2006

Language

English

ISBN 10

0961392177

ISBN 13

9780961392178

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

First edition.

Condition

Fine

Dust Jacket Condition

Fine

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Synopsis

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates visual information. Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how data and evidence turn into explanation. The book identifies excellent and effective methods for showing nearly every kind of information, suggests many new designs (including sparklines), and provides analytical tools for assessing the credibility of evidence presentations (which are seen from both sides: how to produce and how to consume presentations). For alert consumers of presentations, there are chapters on diagnosing evidence corruption and PowerPoint pitches. Beautiful Evidence concludes with 2 chapters that leave the world of pixel and paper flatland representations - and move onto seeing and thinking in space land, the real-land of three-space and time.

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"Science and art," according to Tufte, "have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information." This book is about how that seeing turns into showing. Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale University and author of three previous widely praised books on visual evidence, displays outstanding examples of the genre. One of the most arresting is Galileo's series of hand-drawn images of sunspots. A colleague of Galileo, the author tells us, said that the astronomer's drawings "delight both by the wonder of the spectacle and the accuracy of expression." That, Tufte says, is beautiful evidence.

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