Please answer the following question: Facts: - caption: tufte 21 , 2015 during his one-day course in dallas , may - notableworks: '' beautiful evidence '' the visual display of quantitative information '' '' - birth date: 14 march 1942 - name: edward rolf tufte - nationality: american - image: edward_tufte _ - _ cropped.jpg - birth place: kansas city , missouri - occupation: professor , statistician , writer , sculptor Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of edward tufte .
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edward rolf tufte -lrb- ; born march 14 , 1942 -rrb- is an american statistician and professor emeritus of political science , statistics , and computer science at yale university .he is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization .