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US Mall 1 - Envisioning Information
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List Price: $48.00
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Manufacturer: Graphics Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.23
EAN: 9780961392116
ISBN: 0961392118
Label: Graphics Press
Manufacturer: Graphics Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 126
Publication Date: 1990-05
Publisher: Graphics Press
Studio: Graphics Press
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Summary: Interesting and enjoyable
Comment: Stimulates the visualisation of information with illustrations on every page and easy to read text. Provides many helpful ideas, as well as some `do and don't's. Some overlap with the other book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information / Envisioning Information).
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Summary: Thought provoking
Comment: Envisioning Information is a scientific explanation of the importance of why data should be displayed in meaningful ways. The super graphics are well selected and combine perfectly with Tufte's original concepts into specifics of how we should envision data.
The work is in some ways academic but in my opinion represents one of the great works in the information visualization space.
(for some reason amazon will not let me select 5 stars)
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Summary: Gorgeous but impractical
Comment: As a coffee table book, Envisioning Information is gorgeous. You will behold luscious colors, faithfully reproduced images with fine detail, and a fine collection of some of the best and worst of informative graphics. It's a splendid portfolio of some ingenious visual displays of complex information.
For theoreticians, it's a mind-jogger and demands a critical review of how you display information today. Are we being demanding enough? Simple enough? Clear enough? There is more than one way to display information and this portfolio challenges us to think harder.
As a practial guide, however, this tome is slim. It's a quick read - I went through it briskly in about two hours. And it does contain a few useful nuggets, especially the before-and-after images showing how too much color, over-heavy borders and other thoughtless ornamentation detracts from the information. However, it was not enough for me. I want a book chock full of practical guidance on how to convert data into clear information, and this book is a veritable beauty contest of successful images without much practical guidance so that practitioners could achieve the same.
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Summary: Envisioning Information
Comment: Book is in good condition, shipped quickly. I am very satisfied with this process and result.
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Summary: Portable affordable art
Comment: 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) dimensions on a flat surface.
While even more beautifully crafted than The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition, it has less in the way of practical guidance. Tufte's principle here can be reduced to this far-reaching but not so simply-implemented statement: increase the resolution of "flatland" (paper or computer screen) to show more data to increase clarity.
As usual, the principle is lavishly illustrated with beautifully-reproduced examples of good and bad ways of envisioning information. In fact, I have found Tufte's principle and illustrations are useful ways of thinking about how to improve my own graphics, but I find my ability to implement them frustrated by the limitations of the design tools I use most: Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word, wikis. That is a negative reflection on the tools, not on Tufte.
In any case, enjoy Tufte's books now for the portable affordable art that they are, and hope for the tools to catch up soon.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Interesting and enjoyable
Comment: Stimulates the visualisation of information with illustrations on every page and easy to read text. Provides many helpful ideas, as well as some `do and don't's. Some overlap with the other book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information / Envisioning Information).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Thought provoking
Comment: Envisioning Information is a scientific explanation of the importance of why data should be displayed in meaningful ways. The super graphics are well selected and combine perfectly with Tufte's original concepts into specifics of how we should envision data.
The work is in some ways academic but in my opinion represents one of the great works in the information visualization space.
(for some reason amazon will not let me select 5 stars)
Customer Rating:
Summary: Gorgeous but impractical
Comment: As a coffee table book, Envisioning Information is gorgeous. You will behold luscious colors, faithfully reproduced images with fine detail, and a fine collection of some of the best and worst of informative graphics. It's a splendid portfolio of some ingenious visual displays of complex information.
For theoreticians, it's a mind-jogger and demands a critical review of how you display information today. Are we being demanding enough? Simple enough? Clear enough? There is more than one way to display information and this portfolio challenges us to think harder.
As a practial guide, however, this tome is slim. It's a quick read - I went through it briskly in about two hours. And it does contain a few useful nuggets, especially the before-and-after images showing how too much color, over-heavy borders and other thoughtless ornamentation detracts from the information. However, it was not enough for me. I want a book chock full of practical guidance on how to convert data into clear information, and this book is a veritable beauty contest of successful images without much practical guidance so that practitioners could achieve the same.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Envisioning Information
Comment: Book is in good condition, shipped quickly. I am very satisfied with this process and result.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Portable affordable art
Comment: 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) dimensions on a flat surface.
While even more beautifully crafted than The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition, it has less in the way of practical guidance. Tufte's principle here can be reduced to this far-reaching but not so simply-implemented statement: increase the resolution of "flatland" (paper or computer screen) to show more data to increase clarity.
As usual, the principle is lavishly illustrated with beautifully-reproduced examples of good and bad ways of envisioning information. In fact, I have found Tufte's principle and illustrations are useful ways of thinking about how to improve my own graphics, but I find my ability to implement them frustrated by the limitations of the design tools I use most: Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word, wikis. That is a negative reflection on the tools, not on Tufte.
In any case, enjoy Tufte's books now for the portable affordable art that they are, and hope for the tools to catch up soon.
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