Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative [Signed by Tufte]

Edward R Tufte

ISBN 10: 0961392126 / ISBN 13: 9780961392123

Published by Graphics Press, Cheshire CT, 2002

About this Item

9 x 11 inches. 156 pages. Signed by Tufte on Title page. Condition of the book is Near Fine, looks new on all points. Dust jacket is Very Good+, very light surface wear. STK.

Seller Inventory # 54563

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative [Signed by Tufte]
• Publisher: Graphics Press, Cheshire CT
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0961392126
• ISBN 13: 9780961392123
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Fifth printing, with revisions.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art

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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