Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

Edward R. Tufte

ISBN 10: 0961392126 / ISBN 13: 9780961392123

Published by Graphics Press, Chesire, Conn., 1997

About this Item

Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997. FIRST EDITION. Second printing, with revisions. Hardcover. Beige cloth with red spine and cover lettering. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, which has a small sticker-removal scruff. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A clean, tight copy. Oblong quarto, 157 pages including index. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 100 full-color and black-and-white images, charts, diagrams, and historical engravings. Tufte s third major work on analytical design, featuring extended visual case studies on the 1854 cholera epidemic, 19th-century magic illusions, and the Challenger explosion highlighting how visual miscommunication can have fatal consequences.

Seller Inventory # F100-Tufte

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
• Publisher: Graphics Press, Chesire, Conn.
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0961392126
• ISBN 13: 9780961392123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

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Synopsis

Describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause, and effect. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.

Synopsis

Tufte's (statistical evidence and information design, Yale U.) third book on displaying information that began with the now classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1983). Whereas the first considered the display of numbers and the second of nouns, this explores the representation of