by Edward R. Tufte
Following 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' and
'Envisioning Information', this is Edward Tufte's third book on
information design.
Quoting from Tufte's introduction to Visual Explanations:
"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.
These strategies are found again and again in portrayals of
explanations, quite independent of the particular substantive
content or technology of display."
CONTENTS:
1 Images and Quantities
2 Visual and Statistical Thinking:
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions
3 Explaining Magic: Pictorial Instructions and
Disinformation Design
4 The Smallest Effective Difference
5 Parallelism: Repetition and Change,
Comparison and Surprise
6 Multiples in Space and Time
7 Visual Confections: Juxtapositions from the
Oceans of the Streams of Story
157 pages
Price: $45 USA (postpaid)
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ISBN: 0961392126
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