Example sentences for: tufte

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  • After presenting his own version of what the charts should have looked like, Tufte writes, "There are right ways and wrong ways to show data; there are displays that reveal truth and displays that do not."

  • In his discussion of one historic work--Jean Buchon's comparison of American rivers in his 1825 Atlas Geographique --Tufte notes how the depictions of the Mississippi and the Amazon must curl around the page, since there's no room to show them stretched out like the other rivers.

  • Actually, what Tufte says is, "[T]he two rivers meander boustrophedonically around a tight frame."

  • Tufte lays out rules about such things as density and emphasis, chartjunk and clutter, layering and hierarchy, color and parallelism--all of which have synesthetic grammatical analogs in writing.

  • Tufte did not explicitly spell out his ultimate intentions in that first volume of his trilogy, but it has turned out that the whole series has been produced according to a precise schema--as he now indicates in the introduction to Visual Explanations , which was just published by his company, . The Visual Display of Quantitative Information had been devoted to pictures of numbers, he explains--"how to depict data and enforce statistical honesty" whether the subject is traffic deaths or the distribution of galaxies.


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