{"id":11,"date":"2006-02-19T14:48:30","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-08-28T22:43:48","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T03:43:48","slug":"the-visual-display-of-quantitative-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=relaxandhavef-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0961392142%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1140382000%2Fref%3Dpd_bbs_1%3F%255Fencoding%3DUTF8\"><u>The Visual Display of Quantitative Information<\/u><\/a>,by Edward Tufte<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Starting with Dr. Denman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Mr. Swiss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 presentation on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Information and Misinformation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at TAM4, I have been hearing and reading a lot about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/index\">Edward Tufte<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s works on statistical evidence and information design.  Having read a few Tufte-quoting books, it was time for the prime material.  This book is the first of a series on visual display of data and evidence.  I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking forward to reading the others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For me, it was cool to read the original definitions of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153data-ink\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153chartjunk.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d  Reading his explanations and viewing the charts and other graphics he chose for illustration purposes was great.<\/p>\n<p>I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to read the other two titles (or three if I wait too long, another one is due out this year), before trying to describe the impact of his writings.  I will say that I enjoyed reading Tufte less, having read him after reading him quoted in other works.  It took some of the joy of discovery out of the reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,by Edward Tufte<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Starting with Dr. Denman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Mr. Swiss\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 presentation on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Information and Misinformation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d at TAM4, I have been hearing and reading a lot about Edward Tufte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s works on statistical evidence and information design. Having read a few Tufte-quoting books, it was time for the prime material. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relaxandhavefun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}