Edward Tufte Quotes on design

Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

Edward Tufte

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Edward Tufte

Edward Rolf Tufte (; born March 14, 1942), sometimes known as "ET", is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization.

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Edward Tufte

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

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Edward Tufte

The point is that analytical designs are not to be decided on their convenience to the user or necessarily their readability or what psychologists or decorators think about them; rather, design architectures should be decided on how the architecture assists analytical thinking about evidence.

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If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

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