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Summary: An elegant and highly informative reference work, a classic.
Review: This is one of the finest reference works I have read. It is lucid, elegant and beautifully presented. Highly recommended.
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Summary: invaluable, every scientist, hell every american should read
Review: the examples are incredible. this book is one of the most beautiful books I have ever read both for its content and execution. The advice Tufte gives with regard to the presentation of information will only become more important in the future. Whether reading the newspaper or writing a technical report, the proper display of quantitative information is an invaluable skill. this book helps you to think clearly and concisely. one of the best books of all time.
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Summary: If you have to design anything, read this series
Review: Whether it is presentation slides or internet sites, the concepts provided in Tufte's books will give you insight and skill that will improve your output 1000%.There is some overlap between the books, but just looking at the pictures and his explanations and concepts will make you say "AHA!" and improve your next design.
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Summary: Elegant, Astounding, Practical
Review: This wonderful book has earned a very special space on my professional bookshelf. Tufte's work was immediately put to use in reducing "chart junk" in a very important presentation I was preparing. This book can help anyone seeking to communicate complex information to nearly any audience. The graphic of Napoleon's march to Moscow is intense and focused - and sparked several conversations around the office.
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Summary: Not just timeless, timely
Review: When it was published in 1983, it was an insightful work, that provided guidance for a limited number of designers and academics working in fields where data interpretation was critical. With the growth of the Web, this book, and it's companion "Visual Explanations" have become seminal, like McLuhan's work became. Modern commerce and entertainment is now being forced into a matrix of 800 * 600 pixels: even more constraining than the constraints of a printed page. Tufte urges us on to get the the core of our intent, to separate the wheat from the chaff, at a time when media is reinventing itself faster than artists can keep up. No professional or technologist can afford not to read Tufte's work. As Tufte ends the book "Design is Choice". Choices must be informed.
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Summary: Back to content
Review: Everyone producing tons of fancy, colourful charts for management meetings (including the tons of consultans) must read this book. It helps you to impress people with graphics telling a story not by showing your deep knowledge of every goodie your tool provides. The handmade, black&white graphic of napoleon's march to moscow beats every computerwork I've seen so far. Thank God, Tufte doesn't give you tips for doing the whole thing on a computer.
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Summary: Every Web designer should read this book
Review: This is the third of Edward Tufte's brilliant trilogy on how information should be displayed. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is about pictures of numbers. Envisioning Information is about picturing nouns. Visual Explanations is about picturing verbs. All three are beautiful artefacts in their own right, encapsulating the author's ideas in the actual production of the book. Each is crammed with examples of good and bad practice over the past centuries.
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Summary: Wonderful examples of how to present information
Review: This is the first of Edward Tufte's brilliant trilogy on how information should be displayed. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is about pictures of numbers. Envisioning Information is about picturing nouns. Visual Explanations is about picturing verbs. All three are beautiful artefacts in their own right, encapsulating the author's ideas in the actual production of the book. Each is crammed with examples of good and bad practice over the past centuries.
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Summary: Great for data analysts as well as intra-internet developers
Review: I read this book when it was first released. It is exactly what it claims to be, a good "how to" book for beginning visual data representation. As a very experienced (Ogilvy-Mather) graphic designer (MFA) turned software/systems developer (MS Math, MS CompSci), I have seen too many websites whose "developers" obviously knew nothing about this subject! I think before another website is built by one of these neophytes, this book should be "required reading" as part of a study course on how to get the intended message to the intended audience in the most effective manner possible.
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Summary: A great guide to clear presentation
Review: If you need to present graphic information in an elegant and professional style, this book is a valuable source of instruction and ideas. It is definitely NOT for the hyper-glitz crowd. This kind of presentation could go a long way toward restoring civility to communication.
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