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

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

DV
365 Challenge No. 1 - 2025 publish daily old unpublished pics
Day 349 - Boat reflections on Loch Fyne, Minard, Argyll, Scotland 2013
More at fotosbyfaj.com#calm #tranquil #MINARD #lochfyne #argyllssecretcoast #argyllandbute #scotland
#fotosbyfaj #365challenge2025 #reflections

@1pseudodeplus Attention nouvelle règle ! Mastodon c'est :

- le #velo
- #linux
- le #lin
- lire Cécile #Minard
(et le #MardiPatisserie bien sûr)

🤯 Conhecia o de Minard (escrevi na minha desaparecida newsletter sobre ele) e o de Marchetti, mas não os outros três https://invidious.private.coffee/watch?v=bFRyGrZUoUs Que maravilha!

#diagramas #ter #minard #marchetti

5 Diagramas que cambiaron el MUNDO

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Ter | Invidious
Zaal nog leeg, podium al een pak voller… #minard #blueandbroke #inside

🌟🌍 🗺️ 📏 La #morphologie de la ligne de flux. Une nouvelle variable visuelle issue du système de Cartes figuratives de #Minard

#flowmap #semio #cartostats
📖 dans la Revue M@ppemonde 🙏 😍
🔗 https://journals.openedition.org/mappemonde/8894

La morphologie de la ligne de flux. Une nouvelle variable visuelle ...

Introduction Charles-Joseph Minard (1781–1870), ancien ingénieur en chef des Ponts et Chaussées, est considéré comme le « Playfair français » (Palsky, 1984), pour ce qui est de la cartographie des ...

The #Minard graph but for #COVID mortality