Always seeming a bit of a curmudgeon to me, it’s a surprise that (the famous … at least to us designers) Edward Tufte actually seems to like the iPhone Here’s the video (not “YouTubed”, so you have to click to go to his site to watch it). The best quote from the piece is this: [...]
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Compared To What?
January 14th, 2008 · Comments Off · Healthcare Markets, Information Design
One of my favorite pieces of advice from Edward Tufte is that when presenting data you must always ask the question: compared to what? To quote Tufte: To be truthful and revealing, data graphics must bear on the question at the heart of quantitative thinking: “Compared to what?”fromThe Visual Display of Quantitative Information Any logical [...]
How to Make a Pie Chart (Hint: Don’t)
November 5th, 2006 · Comments Off · Information Design
Lately I’ve had pie charts on the brain. For some reason they get abused in the most unfortunate ways. An excellent description of how a pie chart should function appears in Information Graphics, A Comprehensive Illustrative Reference, by Robert L. Harris. “The major purpose [of a pie chart] is to show the relative sizes of [...]
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