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The point of the essay is to change things.
Edward Tufte
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Edward Tufte
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: March 14
Computer Scientist
Graphic Designer
Political Scientist
Sculptor
Statistician
University Teacher
Writer
Kansas City
Missouri
Edward R. Tufte
Edward Rolfe Tufte
Edward Rolf Tufte
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The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime
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The best graphics are about the useful and important, about life and death, about the universe. Beautiful graphics do not traffic with the trivial.
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I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
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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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Graphical excellence is that which gives to the viewer the greatest number of ideas in the shortest time with the least ink in the smallest space.
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My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
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Simple design, intense content.
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
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Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
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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.
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The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensiona l the paper is static, flat. How are we to represent the rich visual world of experience and measurement on mere flatland?
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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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There is no such thing as information overload, just bad design. If something is cluttered and/or confusing, fix your design.
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