Visual Explanations
Subtitle: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
By: Edward R. Tufte.
Edition: Fourth printing, with revisions, April 2000.
Publisher: Graphics Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cheshire, Conn
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 156
Subjects: Visual perception.; Pattern perception.
Description: 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. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Images and Quantities; title: Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions; title: Explaining Magic: Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design; title: The Smallest Effective Difference; title: Parallelism: Repetition and Change, Comparison and Surprise; title: Multiples in Space and Time; title: Visual Confections: Juxtapositions from the Ocean of the Streams of Story