Show threadstudio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈Feb 9

Tufte has an awesome description of complexity buried in the Third Principal for the Analysis and Presentation of Data:

"The only thing that is 2-dimensional about evidence is the physical flatland of paper and computer screen. Flatlandy technologies of display encourage flatlandy thinking. Reasoning about evidence should not be stuck in 2 dimensions, for the world we seek to understand is profoundly multivariate. Strategies of design should make multivariateness routine, nothing out of the ordinary. To think multivariate, show multivariate."

#Complexity #Minard #AnalyticalDesign #EdwardTufte #BeautifulEvidence

studio craque 54 🏳️‍🌈Feb 9

I am reading Edward Tufte's incredible tome "Beautiful Evidence" and it connects my data nerd with my design nerd so well. It has me thinking about all kinds of ways evidence is designed in #SRE.

Searching for some online resources, I found what looks like an amazing course, and the whole syllabus is apparently in GitHub pages. Here's the one on the thing I learned about today, Charles-Joseph Minard's map of the War of 1812:

https://badriadhikari.github.io/DV/week2/minards/

#Minard #Napoleon #WarOf1812 #AnalyticalDesign #EdwardTufte #BeautifulEvidence

Charles-Joseph Minard’s map of Napoleon’s flawed Russian campaign: An ever-current classic

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