Edward R. Tufte
Autore di The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Sull'Autore
Edward Tufte is Professor Emeritus at Yale University where he taught courses in statistical evidence and information design. He also served as Professor of Public Affairs at Princeton University
Fonte dell'immagine: Flickr user fortdrastic (2005).
Opere di Edward R. Tufte
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Tufte, Edward R.
- Nome legale
- Tufte, Edward Rolf
- Altri nomi
- Tufte, Edward
- Data di nascita
- 1942-03-14
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Beverly Hills, California, USA (youth)
- Istruzione
- Yale University (Ph.D., Political Science, 1968)
Stanford University (BA | Statistics) - Attività lavorative
- Statistician
professor of political science, statistics, and computer science - Organizzazioni
- Yale University
Princeton University
American Statistical Association
Graphics Press LLC
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Five star books (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 21
- Utenti
- 15,350
- Popolarità
- #1,486
- Voto
- 4.3
- Recensioni
- 119
- ISBN
- 26
- Lingue
- 1
- Preferito da
- 65
His first volume is amazing. The second is good, although the fourth is mostly a somewhat improved version of similar material. The third left no impression on me at all. And this fifth seems to be written to a much different, and far lower, standard. Much of the time, I simply had no idea of what new point he was trying to make (nor, therefore, how it might affect how I create or consume material intended to communicate facts).
I try to read Tufte's books with my brain firmly engaged; but even so this one just left me wondering what it was all about.… (altro)