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Gran Leon Books - The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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List Price: $40.00
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Manufacturer: Graphics Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 519
EAN: 9780961392109
ISBN: 096139210X
Label: Graphics Press
Manufacturer: Graphics Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 197
Publication Date: 1992-02
Publisher: Graphics Press
Studio: Graphics Press
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Editorial Reviews:
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A modern classic. Tufte teaches the fundamentals of graphics, charts, maps and tables. "A visual Strunk and White" (The Boston Globe). Includes 250 delightfullly entertaining illustrations, all beautifully printed.
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Summary: Read This Tufte First
Comment: I have attended one of the author's talks (easy to find on the web), and have all four books. One criticism of Tufte is that it is not obvious how to go about doing many of the graphics in his books. The are carefully crafted by individuals with great skill and expensive software. The fourth book, Beautiful Evidence, might leaving you scratching you head as to how to use the information in preparation for your next business presentation. He deserves his reputation, however. The books are beautiful, and his ideas have great merit. If you want an introduction to Tufte that gives you a chance of putting the advice into practice at work, you must read this one first. To go for the most recent, would be a mistake for most readers. If you become a convert, the other three are also excellent, but offer less practical application for the everyday business person. (For instance, I am a statistician and data miner, not a graphic designer).
The second book is Envisioning Information, and the third is The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition. Beware the inexpensive paperbacks - they are excepts from the hardcovers. Good content, but potentially redundant.
Although it is not a book for everyone, there is a very interesting discussion (albeit short) of Minard's Napoleon's march chart (made famous by Tufte) in The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing).
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Summary: Interesting and enjoyable
Comment: Stimulates the visualisation of information with illustrations on every page and easy to read text. Provides many helpful ideas, as well as some `do and don't's. Some overlap with the other book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information / Envisioning Information).
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Summary: Great !
Comment: This book is great. It has a lot of useful insights. However I was expecting something more practical... Maybe it's not a guide but a book with some nice historical data and references. Superb graphs and pictures.
Yes I would recommend you to buy it .
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Summary: Life Changing and Beautiful
Comment: It is rare that a supposedly technical book really changes a reader's life. I can say, though, that after reading Tufte's books, my life is not the same. The complaints of the detracting reviewers are baseless if you understand the nature of this book. This book is the groundworks of a theory of seeing, of communicating through images. It is by no means a new theory. Throughout human history man has communicated through history. But Tufte shows with unparalleled visual eloquence what makes one image successfully communicate while another fails.
After reading this book, I have never looked at printed matter in the same way again. Not only that, through his breadth of examples and the depth of his analysis, the reader is made to realize that visual information/visual communication are at the heart of our human identity. Tufte's definition of successful display and its inherent subtlety are so deeply human that they can be carried over to general rhetoric and aesthetics if not farther.
No, he won't do your homework for you. He won't supply you with handy templates for making projects look snappier. Expecting that is like expecting a philosophy book to think for you. This work (I refer to all of his books--they really are one unit together) is certainly one of the great accomplishments of the last twenty years.
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Summary: Very nice book
Comment: Tufte's book is a very fine book on data graphics.
Although this book gives a lot of simple advice on how to effectively communicate quantitative information, it is not just a recipe-like book, as it also makes you think about a data graphic as something that is telling a story with numbers.
Beware that not all advice given is easily applied using common office suites. This is by no means a problem with the book, it is just that the text is not at all software-oriented. In fact, you may start to see the limitations in the office suites themselves. So, for those who just want some fast rules to use in their favorite software, this book may not be enough, or even the most recommended one. For all other readers, I highly recommend it.
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