Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

This is an amazing book! It's well thought-out and the concepts are clearly presented. It's a visual treat as well as being extremely informative. This is one of my favorite books! Please mark if you find my review helpful. Thank you so much!

The book provides a variety of examples, but does not seem to have a systematic outline of principles of good visual representation. I looked at examples, but was unable to form any kind of principles to follow for future work.

This might be useful for non-artists. The points he makes are obvious to any visual thinker. Also, presentation of complex data has really advanced since the book came out.

My fiance wanted this as a present, she's an engineer.While engineers may be great at making great results, presenting the information is still a challenge (especially to customers and management).She really likes this book. It provides a great guide on how to present information so that other engineers and the 'layman' can understand it. Data presentation can be quite a problem for engineers, and this book does a fantastic job at providing methods and means for producing useful and meaningful visual representations of findings.I'm not an engineer 'per se,' but I'm a degreed Mathematician. I flipped through the book, and it seems as though the book does a very good job at helping us that may be poor at presenting our technical ideas in a way such that it is easily comprehensible to others - in particular others that are not mathematicians or engineers.This aside, the limited reading I did was pretty easy, and his ideas and points were easy to comprehend and well articulated.

This, and all its companion volumes is the platinum standard for graphics. It is simultaneously an homage to those who have gone before Tufte, with elegant production values. As such, it’s a brilliant history of ideas. It also shows how still images, combined with video frames, can convey information of a dynamic process. Dont sit down at your computer without it in easy reach.

This masterpiece contains explanations of "magic" and illusions, displays of scientific charts, graphs, and maps as well as analysis of photographs and historical drawings. Tuft illustrates the need to present information in alternate formats taking in to account a variety of contexts and perspectives in which it will be consumed. Numerous examples, illustrations and descriptions are included which detail the importance and methods used to encode information in a pictorial medium, enabling an audience to identify critical relevant details of that which is depicted, including relative size, amount, scale, and time, whichever may be appropriate for a given subject. An interesting and well documented commentary is presented about the Space Shuttle tragedy, which illustrates just how important information design can be, and the dramatic effects, which may result down the line if not proper consideration is not given to such a basic issue.The methods and subjects covered are applicable to a variety of media, and subject matter including, marketing and promotional materials, web design and information presentation, the presentation of scientific data, and general photography. No matter what your occupation or ambition, if it involves conveying information in a graphical format, this book will provide insight and examples that will help you get your point across more effectively, and enhance the end user experience.

Such an interesting topic- information, from maps to demographics to charts and other artistically portrayed information, that have been graphically documented in compelling images over the centuries. Info as art.

For anyone into visuals, this book is fantastic. The quality of the paper is also top-notch. It can really change your understanding of how data can be presented better. This is for anyone power-pointed to death.

I have to confess to being a huge fan of Tufte though i came late to the party.This book explores the methods and values of excellence in presenting information on change: how you represent movement, actions and ideas in a way that enlightens, informs and educates.The book has excellent production values (what else did you expect) and is a a delight to explore. Tufte explains concepts and ideas in an engaging manner, pulling examples from hundreds of years of human history, from Hobbs "Leviathan", to abstract art of the 20th century. Amongst the pages are gems of insight from random places: be it descriptions fo magic tricks to descriptions of fish for those underwater! Brilliant.It's interesting to read and reflect on how this is still relevant in a digital age where images can be distorted, manipulated or created on a whim. Even more than ever, the integrity of data and information has to meet these standards to be credible and effective. Powerpoint slaves, take note!

Maybe others would see a good use of it, to me it was nothing I was expecting it to be.

Informative review of easy and useful data display.

Very good book for anyone who does presentations and reports in their work.Since it's the third book of Edward Tufte I can greatly recommend the previous 2 as well.To keep in mind, especialy with the previous books, is that Tufte has a large focus on the use of graphs and visualisations as to help with analysis and give a technically good representation of your information and data.If your looking to know more about how to sell or pitch with your presentations you might want to look for something else as a complement.Cheers/Christian

Great, but not as good as The Quantitative Display of Visual Information.