![]() ![]() ![]() Tufte starts by presenting the concepts of Graphical Excellence and Graphical Integrity. In order to achieve this, Tufte offers the reader a set of concepts and principles to follow in order to design data graphics that represent complex information in the most effective way. As he puts it, he wanted Statistical Graphics to be “intellectually respectable and not just about pie charts and ruling pens”. In order to do that he believes the field of Data Graphics needs a certain level professionalization. Well-designed data graphics are the simplest and most powerful way to explain data. ![]() Often the most effective way to represent, study, and summarize data is by looking at pictures of the data. The main reason why I decided to go for this book is because I thought I would help me make my visualizations about the actual data and not about the tricks, tool and aesthetics that can be applied to the visualization.Įdward Tufte states a very clear idea in this book: The main purpose of Data Graphics is to be able to represent complex information in a very simple way. Tufte’s ” The Visual Display of Quantitative Information”. For this week’s Book Review I decided to read Edward R. ![]()
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