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Seeing with Fresh Eyes : Meaning, Space, Data, Truth.

By: Publisher: Cheshire, Connecticut : Graphics Press LLC, 2020Copyright date: 2020Description: 176 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780961392192
  • 0961392193
  • 9781930824003
  • 1930824009
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 701 TUF
LOC classification:
  • QA76.9 .I52 .T84 2020
Contents:
Introduction: The Thinking Eye -- Meaning and Space: See with Fresh Eyes, Question Everything, Remodel Conventional Models -- Content-Responsive Typography: Redesigning Sentences, Paragraphs, Labels -- Graphical Sentences: Nouns and Verbs, Structure and Function -- Data Analysis when Truth Matters: On The Relationship Between Evidence and Conclusions. Remodeling Statistical Practice and Teaching -- Annotations: Explanatory Words, Numbers, Graphics, Images Placed on Content-Responsive Local Grids. Annotations are Hard to Unsee. Is Thinking Just Annotating the World? -- Instructions at Point of Need -- Lists: Theory and Practice -- Smarter and Shorter Meetings: Remodeling Nonfiction Presentations -- A Visual Index, a Quilt of Sources and Images: Remodeling the Back-Matter in Books.
Summary: "Edward Tufte is a statistician/visualizer/artist, taught data analyis and policy making at Princeton and Yale 32 years, and also taught his one-day course on Presenting Data and Information to 328,000 students 1994-2020. He wrote, designed, and self-published 5 books on data visualization. The New York Times described ET as the 'Leonardo da Vinci of data,' and Bloomberg as the 'Galileo of graphics.' He has designed and constructed a 234-acre sculpture park, studio, and tree farm in northwest Connecticut, which will show his artworks and remain open space in perpetuity, and founded Graphics Press, ET Modern Gallery/Studio, Hogpen Hill Farms." -- Provided by publisher
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BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QA76.9 .I52 .T84 2020 1 Checked out 12/28/2024 50583020021147
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Thinking Eye -- Meaning and Space: See with Fresh Eyes, Question Everything, Remodel Conventional Models -- Content-Responsive Typography: Redesigning Sentences, Paragraphs, Labels -- Graphical Sentences: Nouns and Verbs, Structure and Function -- Data Analysis when Truth Matters: On The Relationship Between Evidence and Conclusions. Remodeling Statistical Practice and Teaching -- Annotations: Explanatory Words, Numbers, Graphics, Images Placed on Content-Responsive Local Grids. Annotations are Hard to Unsee. Is Thinking Just Annotating the World? -- Instructions at Point of Need -- Lists: Theory and Practice -- Smarter and Shorter Meetings: Remodeling Nonfiction Presentations -- A Visual Index, a Quilt of Sources and Images: Remodeling the Back-Matter in Books.

"Edward Tufte is a statistician/visualizer/artist, taught data analyis and policy making at Princeton and Yale 32 years, and also taught his one-day course on Presenting Data and Information to 328,000 students 1994-2020. He wrote, designed, and self-published 5 books on data visualization. The New York Times described ET as the 'Leonardo da Vinci of data,' and Bloomberg as the 'Galileo of graphics.' He has designed and constructed a 234-acre sculpture park, studio, and tree farm in northwest Connecticut, which will show his artworks and remain open space in perpetuity, and founded Graphics Press, ET Modern Gallery/Studio, Hogpen Hill Farms." -- Provided by publisher

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