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Beautiful Evidence by Edward Tufte
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    • Product code: 152642
    • ISBN: 0961392177, ISBN13: 9780961392178, 214 pages, hardback
      Published by Graphics Press on 2006
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    Description of Beautiful Evidence

    Edward Tufte's new book, Beautiful Evidence, is now available

    The book is 214 pages, full colour, hard cover, and produced to the usual elegant standards of Graphics Press.

    In his introduction Edward Tufte writes:

    A colleague of Galileo, Federico Ceri, wrote that Galileo's 38 hand-drawn images of sunspots "delight both by the wonder of the spectacle and the accuracy of expression." That is beautiful evidence.

    Evidence that bears on questions of any complexity typically involves multiple forms of discourse. Evidence is evidence, whether words, numbers, images, diagrams, still or moving. The intellectual tasks remain constant regardless of the mode of evidence: to understand and to reason about the materials at hand, and to appraise their quality, relevance, and integrity.

    Science and art have in common 'intense seeing', the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information. BEAUTIFUL EVIDENCE is about 'how seeing turns into showing', how empirical observations turn into explanations and evidence presentations. The book identifies excellent and effective methods for presenting information, suggests new designs, and provides tools for assessing the credibility of evidence presentations.

    Contents of Beautiful Evidence

    Mapped Pictures: Images as Evidence and Explanation

    Sparklines: Intense, Simple, Word-Sized Graphics

    Links and Causal Arrows: Ambiguity in Action

    Words, Numbers, Images - Together

    The Fundamental Principles of Analytical Design

    Corruption in Evidence Presentations: A Consumer's Guide to Effects Without Causes, Cherry Picking, Overreaching, Chartjunk, and the Rage to Conclude

    The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within

    Sculptural Pedestals: Meaning, Practice, Depedestalization

    Landscape Sculptures


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