Browsing All posts tagged under »Edward Tufte«

Why visualize data? We don’t know (yet)

March 13, 2011 by

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What is the ultimate goal of data visualization?  A recent post on Jan Willem Tulp’s blog outlines some of the controversies in how, and why, you communicate data visually.  Writing about the Dutch InfoGraphics Conference 2011: The keynote was presented by Gert K. Nielsen, the founder of VisualJournalism.com. Though he is a great speaker and […]

The utilitarian function of images: railroads, anatomy, and drosophila

February 6, 2011 by

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When do images have a purely utilitarian function?  Reading through Edward Tufte’s Envisioning Information (an incredible book that I recommend to virtually every social scientist, available on Amazon.com here and via the author’s site here. Really. The images are nice, but his writing is fantastic), I came across a series of railway tables: (Timetable for […]

Love is a battlefield

February 4, 2011 by

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The Sankey Graph is one of the most famous data visualizations in history (in no small part because of Edward Tufte‘s proclamation of its greatness). Created in the 1890′s by Irish Captain Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey to demonstrate the efficiency of steam engines, it was popularized during Napoleon’s Russian campaign as an efficient way […]

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