tufte archives
How to spot a hidden handgun, a sweet infographic from Megan Jaegerman, as analyzed by Ed Tufte.
As featured by Tufte, Reebee Garofalo’s Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music is now in poster form.
Edward Tufte has compiled a nice collection of Megan Jaegerman’s information news graphics. Tufte declares: “Her best work is the best work in news graphics.” Have a look.
“Among the goals of good information design, maximizing local usability is not the highest—although you want to do the best you can to reduce administrative clutter and inconvenience. More important is the quality, relevance, and integrity of the content; making high-resolution comparisons; showing process, mechanism, dynamics, causality, explanation; and capturing in our displays some of the multivariate complexity of the world we seek to understand. If achieving these higher-level goals takes us to inconvenient display technologies, so be it.”Edward Tufte, February 4, 2002 speaking reasonable in a discussion about the value of Flash in regards to Usability and Information Design
Information Aesthetics is a data visualization blog that now really appeals to me after that Tufte conference. Notes coming on that btw, as there was no wifi at the hotel and way too much good food to eat in SF to stop and blog..
O’Reilly’s The History of Programming Languages
“The quality of a speaker is inversly proportional to the number of slides they have.”Marcel Molina, in 37s’ internal Campfire chat