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 An inspirational experience March 12, 2008
Enrico Spinielli (Belgium)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Everybody should read a book like "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" and I do not mean the professionals in the field but really everybody. Tufte really opens your mind and makes you aware of the possibly malevolent or just misleading representations of data we are faced with every day on magazines, newspapers, TV and the web.
Excellent book February 13, 2008
P. H. Lieu (Frisco, TX USA)
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
The book came in wrapped as it was described. Highly recommend for excellent amazon seller.
masterfully produced February 13, 2008
Michael R. Chernick (Holland PA)
30 out of 33 found this review helpful
This was the first of three books written by Tufte on graphical displays. This book has been heralded by famous statisticians and average readers as an eloquent description of the how to and how not to make graphs. Now in its sixteenth printing, this is still a classic and the pictures tell the story along with the prose.
Amazing and most useful for professionals working with data February 9, 2008
Bruno Sécodier (Paris, France)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
To put it simply, this book is one of the very best I have ever had in my hands. The subject is of utmost importance to everyone having to convey quantitative information to non-specialist audiences. The book is both very thorough in the treatment of the subject and extremely pleasant to read. You read it for fun and you learn enormously in the process. In addition, the typography and layout of the book are in perfect sync with its message. A stunning piece of work.
Just Excellent! January 24, 2008
Eric Methot (Bursins, Switzerland)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
In this book Edward R. Tufte show us how we tend to over complicate things and how visual effects tend to distort the story that the numbers have to tell us. He introduces the concept of information to ink ratio is introduced, which is a fancy way of saying that each pixel on a chart should add information or help to it's comprehention.
The book is also a beautiful collection of historical charts, whose authors intuitively knew the importance of un-cluttered information but to which Edward Tufte adds his personal touch to make them modern works of art. My personal favorites are the "Carte figurative", which shows the progress of the Napoleonic war and the one shown on the book cover, which represents a train schedule.
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