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Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.
Edward Tufte
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Edward Tufte
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 14
Computer Scientist
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Political Scientist
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Statistician
University Teacher
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Kansas City
Missouri
Edward R. Tufte
Edward Rolfe Tufte
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The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.
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Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.
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In general, I think audiences are a lot smarter than people think. So, it's not know your audience, it's respect your audience, and really know your content.
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We've drifted into this presentation mode without realizing the cost to the content and the audience in the process.
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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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Simple design, intense content.
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