Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates visual information. Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how data and evidence turn into explanation. The book identifies excellent and effective methods for showing nearly every kind of information, suggests many new designs (including sparklines), and provides analytica...
Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates visual information. Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how data and evidence turn into explanation. The book identifies excellent and effective methods for showing nearly every kind of information, suggests many new designs (including sparklines), and provides analytical tools for assessing the credibility of evidence presentations (which are seen from both sides: how to produce and how to consume presentations). For alert consumers of presentations, there are chapters on diagnosing evidence corruption and PowerPoint pitches. Beautiful Evidence concludes with 2 chapters that leave the world of pixel and paper flatland representations - and move onto seeing and thinking in space land, the real-land of three-space and time.
well-designed and thoughtfully mapped pictures combine the direct visual evidence of images with the power of diagrams: image's representational, local, specific, realistic, unique, detailed qualities; diagram's contextualizing, abstraction, focusing, explanatory qualities.
Most explanatory and evidential images should be mapped, placed in an appropriate context for comparison and located on the universal grid of measurement.
Mapping often represents an explanatory theory applied to the visual evidence. Therefore the standards of what constitutes a credible account also apply to mappings.
Mappings help tell why the image matters.
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Beautiful evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how empirical observations turn into explanations and evidence. The book identifies excellent and effective methods foe showing evidence, suggests new designs, and provides analytical tools for assessing the credibility of evidence presentations. (查看原文)
In the former three books, Tufte talked too much about the graphic design when the computerized graphic is not that popular. In this newly published book, his reemphasized several design principles about the analytical graphic by list few graphic components...
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0 有用 robinforrest 2010-02-19 15:00:48
塔夫特最近的一本书，更像是论文的合集，但是仍然值得一读。
0 有用 kissa 2013-07-22 14:13:21
偶然老大给的电子版觉得好棒，可惜资料都没了
0 有用 Train.py 2016-10-05 16:29:12
amazing
0 有用 Tod Chinn 2016-09-25 22:33:23
2016第121本，1.本书最大的亮点是论据大都来源于经典案例，如科学界（伽利略绘制星图）、艺术界（达芬奇手稿）、历史界（拿破仑远征俄罗斯） 2. 除开推论、理性这些软件，可视化设计最大的挑战：如何用最简单的表现形式展示最复杂的有效信息，如：象限图除了打点位置外，可以通过在各坐标轴用颜色表现差异等等
0 有用 purple_samy 2015-10-30 00:29:26
这本书cw老师以前专英课上推荐过，惦念到现在才有机会读到。书中若干张自然科学图示很有启发。