Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

Tufte, Edward R.

ISBN 10: 0961392126 / ISBN 13: 9780961392123

Published by Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT, 2007

About this Item

8th printing, with revisions. Hard cover 4to in beige cloth w/red spine titles. Fine and unmarked book in Near DJ w/smudged rear panel. 156pp inc. Index; well-illustrated in b/w and color throughout. Additional postage for Priority or International.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
• Publisher: Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0961392126
• ISBN 13: 9780961392123
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Printing: 5th or later Printin
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art
  • Literature
  • Non-Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause, and effect. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.

Reviews

Tufte is the master of visualization. You can immediately add this new work alongside his previous gems, Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983) and Envisioning Information (1990, both from Graphics). Tufte's discussions take place in a world where specific software and certain parameters of the web don't exist?we all know such limitations are always changing anyway. His historical perspective allows Tufte to demonstrate simple, timeless guidelines that are independent of special stylesheets or the latest upgrade from Netscape. In this volume, Tufte illustrates not only traditional areas such as statistics, repetitions, and multiples but also magic and compositional allegories.
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