The single biggest threat to learning the truth is cherry-picked data.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Data #Presentations
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah
The purpose of information design is to assist thinking.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)
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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
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
Always assume the best about your audience.
-- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)
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Information consists of differences that make a difference.
-- Edward Tufte
#EdwardTufte offers two #principles for making efficient graphical representations:
1️⃣ Erase non-data-ink.
2️⃣ Erase redundant data-ink.
Did you know that in #LabPlot (#free, #opensource) you can apply the #EdwardTufte #theme to your #charts in a single click? 
Try it now:
1️⃣ Download #LabPlot: https://labplot.org/download.
2️⃣ File > Open Example > 'Tufte's Minimal Ink Design'
#Physics #Chemistry #DataVisualization #Data #Research #Engineering #Science #DataViz #FOSS #FLOSS
Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.
-- Edward Tufte
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Design #Confusion #Information
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #Panopainting #NewMexico
Useful information architectures help viewers reason about content, substance. Good architectures intensify attention.
-- Edward Tufte
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