From the Washington Monthly article “The Information Sage: Meet Edward Tufte, The Graphics Guru to the Power Elite Who Is Revolutionizing How We See Data”: “Edward Tufte occupies a revered and ...

Think about how much data you sift through on a daily basis. You might search Amazon for a new book, read the latest headlines on nytimes.com, browse Spotify for the best soundtracks, and check your ...

Inspired by Edward Tufte's "sparklines," the typeface turns typed numerals into inline data visualizations. This Data-Viz Tool Is As Easy To Use As A Post-It Note Beam makes charts and graphs simple ...

Edward Tufte is a data viz pioneer, well-known for making complex information easy to parse. But the man is also fascinated with manipulating the physical world; he has transformed the rolling hills ...

Edward Tufte is the guy who summed up the field of information design in one amazing book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. He’s also a sculptor, and last year conceived this behemoth ...

As more media outlets embrace data, and data visualizations become integral to storytelling, it’s increasingly important to understand what makes an effective graphical presentation. While much has ...

Here is what might be a great presentation on the iPhone, only I cannot view it since it requires QuickTime and I refuse to install that virusware on my computers ...

Edward Tufte hates pie charts. Edward Tufte is also the only chart theorist normal people have ever heard of. And so yesterday the Internet was gripped with anti-pie fervor. My friend Tom Lee sticks ...

Edward Tufte is a data scientist and artist and author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Graphics Press, 1983; 2nd ed., 2001). He’s based in Cheshire, Connecticut. This website uses ...

“Every single pixel should testify directly to content.” So says Edward Tufte, a professor emeritus at Yale and pioneer in the field of data visualization. And if this emphasis on clarity and, ...

While you are twiddling your trackball thumbs waiting for the DACA explosion. something slightly useful. I’ll take a worked example. Warning: the page below the fold is large, with many images, ...