false 17743 1 Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how empirical observations turn into explanations and evidence presentations. The book identifies excellent and effective methods for presenting information, suggests new designs, and provides tools for assessing the credibility of evidence presentations. Here we will see many close readings of serious evidence presentations—ranging through evolutionary trees and rocket science to economics, art history, and sculpture. Insistent application of the principles of analytical thinking helps both insiders and outsiders assess the credibility of evidence. 19271 7 2006 Beautiful Evidence total:293|5:116|4:111|3:50|2:14|1:2| 293 1204 594 39 3 0 false false Wed May 27 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Dec 07 16:55:49 -0800 2008 Wed May 27 12:01:07 -0700 2009
I liked the emphasis on the power of the human vision system to process large amounts of data quickly. The focus here, then, is on high information density with as much context as possible. Tufte really likes figures ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 21 11:22:02 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 09:30:26 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 13:37:12 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 20:52:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu May 22 09:44:28 -0700 2008 Mon Mar 10 17:50:29 -0700 2008 Thu May 22 09:44:28 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 07 20:06:49 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 16 15:04:58 -0800 2007 Visual Displays of Quantitative Information.

Still, his brillia...more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 21 15:46:11 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 08 15:20:25 -0700 2008 the Cognitive Style of PowerPoint before) or seemed tangential to the rest of the book (what do sculpture pedestals have to do with evidence, exactly?), but the remainder of the book provided a useful and occasionally witty take on p...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Apr 11 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 06 11:17:44 -0800 2008 Sat Apr 12 10:32:24 -0700 2008

Beautifully executed book by one of the foremost experts in information design. Didn't realize someone could make me so enthusiastic about an idea like inline data charting ("sparklines"), or that someone could really sha...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 13:37:54 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 13:39:49 -0800 2009 5 0 true false Sat Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 07:49:33 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 07:51:59 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Wed Aug 12 19:50:22 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 19:51:35 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Mar 26 15:17:18 -0700 2009 Thu Mar 26 17:26:50 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 17 15:01:15 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 15:12:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jul 26 10:36:43 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 10:36:52 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 18:05:42 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 18:06:04 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 14:00:30 -0700 2007 Tue Sep 11 14:03:24 -0700 2007
He's so famous he can get away with including pictures of his dogs, an unrelated chapter on his sculptures, and so forth. Most of what he says here he's said before -- so if y...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 09 18:48:15 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 09 18:48:15 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 06:14:10 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 06:18:13 -0700 2008
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Beautiful Evidence is a beautiful book to look at and flip through. It follows the design principles it espouses. It's just plain nice to have around and, no lie, it makes me...more...]]>