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Genre/Form: | Authors' autographs (Provenance) |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tufte, Edward R., 1942- Visual explanations. Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)606165962 Online version: Tufte, Edward R., 1942- Visual explanations. Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)606316904 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Edward R Tufte; Dmitry Krasny |
ISBN: | 0961392126 9780961392123 9781930824157 1930824157 |
OCLC Number: | 36234417 |
Description: | 156 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm |
Contents: | Images and quantities -- Visual and statistical thinking: displays of evidence for making decisions -- Explaining magic: pictorial instructions and disinformation design -- Smallest effective difference -- Parallelism: repetition and change, comparison and surprise -- Multiples in space and time -- Visual confections: juxtapositions from the ocean of the streams of story. |
Responsibility: | Edward R. Tufte. |
More information: |
Abstract:
This book describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause and effect.
Table of Contents:
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garyperlman (WorldCat user on 2005-11-23)
Images and Quantities Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions Explaining Magic: Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design The Smallest Effective Difference Parallelism: Repetition and Change, Comparison and Surprise Multiples in Space and Time Visual Confections: Juxtapositions from the Ocean of the Streams of Story
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garyperlman (WorldCat user on 2005-11-23)
Tufte web site: http://www.edwardtufte.com/
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