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Visual explanations : images and quantities, evidence and narrative

Title
Visual explanations : images and quantities, evidence and narrative / Edward R. Tufte.
Author
Tufte, Edward R., 1942-
Publication
Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, ©1997.
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Description
156 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color); 28 cm
Summary
This book describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause and effect.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • Also issued online.
Contents
Images and quantities -- Visual and statistical thinking: displays of evidence for making decisions -- Explaining magic: pictorial instructions and disinformation design -- Smallest effective difference -- Parallelism: repetition and change, comparison and surprise -- Multiples in space and time -- Visual confections: juxtapositions from the ocean of the streams of story.
Call Number
P93.5
ISBN
  • 0961392126
  • 9780961392123
  • 9781930824157
  • 1930824157
LCCN
  • 97127584
  • 9780961392123
OCLC
36234417
Author
Tufte, Edward R., 1942-
Title
Visual explanations : images and quantities, evidence and narrative / Edward R. Tufte.
Imprint
Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, ©1997.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Additional Formats
Also issued online.
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Book review (H-Net)
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Online version: Tufte, Edward R., 1942- Visual explanations. Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)606165962
Online version: Tufte, Edward R., 1942- Visual explanations. Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)606316904
Other Standard Identifier
9780961392123
Research Call Number
Pres. Div. P93.5 .T846 1997
JSF 02-967
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