1. 02 April 2007

    Beautiful Evidence

    647 days ago

    Tufte’s newest tome on the art of information design, or whatever he calls it these days. I really don’t do much design of any sort, but find the stuff fascinating to look at and even read about. Here’s a list of things from the book that I’d love to have poster size and hang somewhere:

    • 17 – Prints of fish.
    • 37 – Pages from book on skiing.
    • 46 – Visualization of Chopin piece.
    • 73 – horse by Verrocchio.
    • 84 – Centuar manuscript.
    • 96 – da Vinci sketches of the moon, 103 – da Vinci star chart.

    And a few notes:

    be approximately right rather than exactly wrong 50

    The rage to conclude:

    The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded. Gustave Flaubert, 154

  2. 19 November 2004

    The Visual Display of Quantative Information

    1511 days ago

    I’m going to try something new here and go by chapters in my summary so this should be updated often as I get through the book.

  3. 11 November 2004

    Visual Explanation

    1519 days ago

    Great book, I finished it a few days ago and it’s still around keeping my attention from other things. Dry in places, but absolutely stuffed with great bits.

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