![]() Some of the colored pages were put through more than 20 printing steps in order to render the subtle shadings required. The books are set in Monotype Bembo, a lead typeface designed so that smaller sizes open the surrounding white space, producing a pleasing balance. He has designed the books so that the reader almost never has to turn a page to see the image, graph, or table that is being described in the text. Tufte illustrates these principles through all three books, going to extremes in the care with which he presents examples, both good and bad. ![]() Serve a clear purpose: description, exploration, tabulation, or decorationīe closely integrated with the statistical and verbal descriptions of a data set ![]() Reveal the data at several levels of detail Induce the viewer to think about the substance rather than the graphical designĪvoid distorting what the data have to say Quantitative graphics should: Show the data The most important of all the practical advice in these books is found on the first page of the first book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Tufte about the expression of information through graphs, charts, maps, and images. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative is the most recent of three books by Edward R. ![]() Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities,Įdward R. ![]() The Visual Display of Quantitative InformationĮdward R. ![]()
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