He delights in their sleight-of-eye, as a designer somewhere has found that unique manner of giving visual structure to information, of making it come alive on the page. Nov 16, Olesia rated it liked it Shelves: If ever you could judge a book by its cover, it's this one. Preview — Envisioning Information by Edward R. There are no discussion topics on this book yet. I've always had a penchant for using numbers, images, and heuristics to explain, and began taking Edward Tufte's courses when the opportunity arose, starting in Jun 20, Liaken rated it liked it Shelves: 
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Add to that the difficulties that the interfaces tend to be outdated, running on computers that are old, and that projects tend to be "stovepiped", and there is a critical problem in trying to get information clearly and meaningfully to my "clients".
The point is that presenting information meaningfully is infotmation and takes real thought.
Envisioning Information
The author seems to have an obsession with train informaton. If this book included just one use case where someone has a bunch of raw data and then Tufte walks through the six principles to see what applies and how to bring them in then that would make this book much more relevant than it is to practitioners.
It's a pretty short read, but I took my time with it because I was enjoying it so much. Tufte follows up his debut classic with an even more beautiful piece of graphic art disguised as a guide to ways to display three and more tute on a flat surface.
One is rewarded by careful examination of the examples in this book, to see how, across centuries and in many countries, people have developed strategies to present the most intricate information.
Apr 10, Vishal Katariya rated it liked it Shelves: Apr 12, Bruce rated it did not like it Recommends it for: Internet Archive Open Library which works in partnership with public libraries: He delights in their sleight-of-eye, as a designer somewhere has found that unique manner of envisionin visual structure to information, of making it come alive on the page.
How to Design Information, Communicate effectively, powerfully like a nuclear-warhead using data analysis and how to make it so people envisioing comprehend it; Intro to How to use Data Analysis, " "This book celebrates innformation from the flatlands of both paper and computer screen, showing superb displays of high-dimensional complex data.
A gorgeous read for anyone who enjoys visualizations. Unknown BindingFirst edition 3rd printing with revisionspages.
I kept hoping these books would give themselves, but Tufte wants his readers to work for it rather than immerse themselves in it. Jun 20, Liaken rated it liked it Shelves: Refresh and try again. Want to Read saving…. Great, but how did that designer know to do that?
Tufte presents many examples of esward color can add depth to maps and diagrams, with varying shades representing depth and altitude. Overall, the book was very enjoyable but so lacking in structure or flow that I was left a little disappointed. The concepts were a little more advanced than those in The Non-Designer's Design Book, so I think it will take another reading or two While nevisioning was not as eye-opening an experience as when I first read The Non-Designer's Design Bookit was still an amazing book that introduced me to many new ideas and bad patterns around visual design for conveying information.
Review of Envisioning Information
This is a classic work in the field of information design. The people I design software for have more information than then really know what to do. If ever you could judge a book by its cover, it's this one. The most design-oriented of Edward Tufte's books, Envisioning Information shows maps, charts, scientific presentations, diagrams, computer interfaces, statistical graphics and tables, stereo photographs, guidebooks, courtroom exhibits, timetables, use of color, a pop-up, and many other wonderful displays of information.
The goal is to make the data more accessible to a human, allowing them to gain insights from the information. Still, this book envusioning its successor are evidence that even self-published visionaries are in need of a good editor. But don't expect to find recipes that can be copied and applied to just any type of information; Envisioning Information is a compendium of unique graphical presentations of information, but contains no shortcuts.
This book has even fewer operational insights than his "Visual Display of Quantitative Information" book did, and a lot of the content seems to be borrowed from that book informwtion cast in a slightly different light.
Envisioning Information by Edward R. Tufte
Tufte revels in the trouvailles he presents. Quick perusal of this book. Envisioning Information by Edward R. All that aside, there were several interesting design principles in Envisioning Information that I had never considered, or tuufte some inchoate knowledge of but that Tufte solidified. We thrive in information-thick worlds because of our marvelous and everyday capacities to select, edit, single out, structure, highlight, group, hufte, merge, harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense, reduce, boil down, choose, categorized, catalog, classify, list, abstract, scan, look into, idealize, isolate, discriminate, distinguish, screen, pigeonhole, pick eddard, sort, integrate, blend, inspect, filter, lump, skip, smooth, chunk, average, approximate, cluster, aggregate, outline, summarize, itemize, review, dip into, flip through, browse, glance into, leaf through, skim, refine, enumerate, glean, synopsize, winnow the wheat from the chaff, and separate the sheep from the goats.
I think I've understood everything Tufte wanted to say but I really wish he said it in some other way.
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