Mastodawn

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

bs2 Jul 11, 2022

Two separate conversations sent me to #EdwardTufte's #BeautifulEvidence of the last day. P.161 had me thinking of #ConwaysLaw and #GoodTeaching for years. This page sent me to #McKeachies that gave me two more ideas to chew on: #GestaltPsychology's #DavidKatz's #MentalDazzle and #ThresholdConcepts for choosing what to teach while attempting a Minimalist Program....
https://www.wired.com/2003/09/ppt2/
The text on the wired page is missing some characters: readable but odd!

PowerPoint Is Evil

Power Corrupts. PowerPoint Corrupts Absolutely.

WIRED

bs2 Jul 10, 2022

How can you do #PowerPoint type presentations after seeing #EdwardTufte's #BeautifulEvidence, especially the bottom part of page 181...

bs2 Mar 11, 2022

I'm trying to see if #Anki and #AnkiWeb can work as a help, rival, or replacement for #DuoLingo . There's something about the "Good Job!" animations that makes me think of #AlfieKohn and how rewards are bad for learning. Thinking of privacy issues and advertising revenue also disturb the learning. I get distracted with thought of #EdwardTufte in #BeautifulEvidence talking about how "The #EthicalValues of #Teachers differ from those involved in #marketing ." p 161

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bs2 Mar 4, 2022

@clacke I didn't know anything about a Swedish invasion. Thanks! Thanks to #EdwardTufte 's #BeautifulEvidence where he introduces the "greatest anti-war poster" by #Minard . It is about Napolean's #invasion . I think a search for Minard years ago showed that he did a similar poster of #Hannibal going from #Spain to #Italy that I'm just reading deeply about now.
https://edspace.american.edu/visualwar/minard/
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Minard – 1869 – the art of consequences

bs2 Feb 26, 2022

Why some people in #Russia might be concerned about #Nato (Controlled by #Germany and #France more than #Greece I guess, not to mention the #USA ) expanding to their borders... It wasn't just the Nazis that invaded and killed millions before leaving in frozen defeat. #EdwardTufte in #BeautifulEvidence says #Minard made the best #antiwar #poster ever. #PaulGoodman in #PacifistFilms says plain documentaries are good, scenes of extreme bloody cruelty just make us think we all deserve to die...

bs2 Feb 11, 2022

And you wonder why Russia might be a little nervous about Western Europe (or NATO and the USA) moving in, on, and around the Ukraine...
- https://snap.as/bsmall2/books-for-gdm-ideas/vm5h4x0n

#EdwardTufte #BeautifulEvidence #NoMoreWar #WarIsStupid #Minard #CharlesJosephMinard

Edward Tufte's Beautiful Evidence

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