Yesterday I went to the lecture by Edward Tufte. Every year I miss the date with careless vacation plans. I have been a fan of his for years and consider Visual Display of Quantitative Information to ...

Edward Tufte is the guy who summed up the field of information design in one amazing book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. He’s also a sculptor, and last year conceived this behemoth ...

Edward Tufte has been described by The New York Times as the "Leonardo da Vinci of Data." Since 1993, thousands have attended his daylong seminars... Edward Tufte, Offering 'Beautiful Evidence' Edward ...

Professor Edward Tufte is one of the world's experts on envisioning information. He believes that how we visually display information, particularly data, has a huge impact on how we absorb or learn ...

"The history of visualizing data," Edward Tufte says, "is very substantially a history of science." As we develop new ways to observe the world, we develop new ways, as well, to render it -- to ...

Foreword / Caroline Baumann -- Introduction / Edward Tufte -- Typologies syllabus : School of Visual Arts, New York, Fall 2010 -- In praise of possums : GEO, Jul. 1980 -- Classic American chairs : ...

Edward Tufte has a big backyard that stretches for hundreds of acres near Cheshire, Conn. Over the years, he's filled that space with giant metal sculptures as big as the trees. "I think it was ...

Edward Tufte of Yale, one of the fathers of information design and data visualization, noted that “there are only two industries that call their customers ‘users’: illegal drugs and software.” His ...