Example sentences for: tufte

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  • 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.

  • The O-ring itself, Tufte makes clear, was not the only design element whose malfunction contributed to the Challenger tragedy.

  • Tufte has produced three books that make it possible to see the dynamics of linguistic grammar in a brilliantly synesthetic way--books that succeed in this task by not having grammar as their ostensible subject at all.

  • 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."

  • This tour de force--written, designed, and published by Tufte himself--was immediately recognized as a classic by data wonks and makers of fine books alike.


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