For. That technical documents could be laminated and posted. 1500 sunrises and 1500 sunsets during the flight, a schedule for space walks and baths, and visits of resupply ships bringing equipment, Without further ado, here is my 10-minute audio interview with Edward Tufte. For designs like my execution plan layout, it’s worth $500-$1,500 to me to have it done right – I’ll recoup that money in the first pre-conference session I do anyway. For more information and the current tour schedule, please visit edwardtufte.com. Feodor – thanks for the link, but if you read Tufte’s work, Xmind doesn’t come close to delivering a supergraphic. Some important points on making presentations: 1) Perform analytical design: Go for right, not original, 2) Generate performance data: Use tables and not overproduced graphics, e.g. ONE-DAY COURSE. (Ironically, he thinks the app market in the iPhone/iPad are fixing this, but it’s quite the opposite. ET doesn’t deny this.
From Edward Tufte, Envisioning Information, 43-44: Serious lists: patient gives doctor (and everyone else involved) a problem list. Maitri Erwin interviews Edward Tufte, the guru of information visualization, for VizWorld after his Presenting Data & Information lecture in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 25th, 2009. The techniques he preaches aren’t easy, but boy, are they inspiring. Maitri is also Indian Languages advisor to Project Gutenberg, the oldest producer of free electronic books. When we want charts, we open Excel. The Quest charts on DMVs/Perfmon are remarkably well done examples of ‘reference cards’.
http://bit.ly/cMFFHh They got recognized for a laminated (11×17-ish) quick reference card that was pinned up in a prominent location.
Explore Instagram: @Maitri's photos on Flickr. I came across an art exhibit in Kansas City that features graphs showing the Boston Red Sox season. ET NOTEBOOKS. The point Tufte made about the iPad almost holds true, but as you pointed out, inter-app data sharing is still in baby-shoes – I use Pages and Numbers extensively, but other than COPY PASTE, there isn’t really much of any data-co-usage, which is a shame.
Furthermore, go past the spatial triplet and treat all problems as multi-variate (or multi-attribute, as I call it), increase information resolution, i.e. Ask how data can be best represented.” In other words, understand and serve the data, not the technique. . $20 Tufte suggests that you should have one artist/techie build a few key templates for you in Adobe Illustrator (or whatever), automate them so that you can change numbers in Excel or Illustrator, and then everything will be taken care of. Wonder what is used for that? I totally get it.
. Watch. Privacy Policy – Terms and Conditions, {"cart_token":"","hash":"","cart_data":""}, sp_BlitzFirst – instant performance check, sp_BlitzQueryStore – analyze queries over time, SQLBits Registration Open – great UK conference. Read the rest of Maitri’s article & hear the interview after the break. It’s a lot of work, but if you put enough effort into a reusable delivery format that covers a topic you need frequently, you can keep reusing that format for months or years. The. Tufte suggests that for really compelling presentations, you should throw away the slide deck format and think of PowerPoint as nothing more than a projector operating system. And yes, I am kinda worried that a supergraphic might need accompanying (super)graphics, which come with it to explain what the first supergraphic was about.
If those of us responsible for data dissemination leave with higher graphical and ethical standards for making presentations, we as a society are that much better for it.