UID:
kobvindex_INT0000010
Format:
158 pages :
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illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour) ;
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28 x 22.5 cm.
Edition:
4th printing, with revisions.
ISBN:
9780961392123 (hbk.)
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0961392126 (hbk.)
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9781930824157 (pbk.)
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1930824157 (pbk.)
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative. Practical applications and examples include statistical graphics, charts for making important decisions in engineering and medicine, technical manuals, diagrams, design of computer interfaces and websites and on-line manuals, animations and scientific visualizations, techniques for talks, and design strategies for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentations, and computer screens. The use of visual evidence in deciding to launch the space shuttle Challenger is discussed in careful detail. Video snapshots show redesigns of a supercomputer animation of a thunderstorm. The book is designed and printed to the highest standards, with luscious color throughout and four built-in flaps for showing motion and before/after effects."
Content:
MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE: "With Visual Explanations, Edward R. Tufte adds a third volume to his indispensable series on information display. The first, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, which focuses on charts and graphs that display numerical information, virtually defined the field. The second, Envisioning Information, explores similar territory but with an emphasis on maps and cartography. Visual Explanations centers on dynamic data--information that changes over time. (Tufte has described the three books as being about, respectively, 'pictures of numbers, pictures of nouns, and pictures of verbs.') Like its predecessors, Visual Explanations is both intellectually stimulating and beautiful to behold. Tufte, a self-publisher, takes extraordinary pains with design and production. The book ranges through a variety of topics, including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger (which could have been prevented, Tufte argues, by better information display on the part of the rocket's engineers), magic tricks, a cholera epidemic in 19th-century London, and the principle of using 'the smallest effective difference' to display distinctions in data. Throughout, Tufte presents ideas with crystalline clarity and illustrates them in exquisitely rendered samples."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: originally published 1997.
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MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE: 1 Images and Quantities -- 2 Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions -- 3 Explaining Magic: Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design -- 4 The Smallest Effective Difference -- 5 Parallelism: Repetition and Change, Comparison and Surprise -- 6 Multiples in Space and Time -- 7 Visual Confections: Juxtapositions from the Ocean of the Streams of Story.
Language:
English
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