I write about media, technology, conferences and festivals globally. The essence of Tufte’s work is that there is a moral, ethical imperative for presenters and readers to insist on simple ...

I had long wanted to meet Edward R. Tufte--the man the New York Times called "the da Vinci of data" because of his concisely written and artfully illustrated books on the visual display of data ...

Data scientist Edward Tufte (dubbed the "Galileo of graphics" by BusinessWeek) pioneered the field of data visualization. Tufte discusses what he calls "forever knowledge," and his latest projects ...

First published in 1983, this book’s author Edward R Tufte took out a second mortgage so that he could publish it himself and retain control over the book’s design so that it reflected the principles ...

Keep the graph simple and you will end up with more effective, cleaner and clearer result than adding unnecessary elements that presentation guru Edward R. Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale ...

Yikes! But it turns out that the story of Edward Tufte is a fascinating one, full of vivid examples of the way technology delivers information confusingly, and how Tufte leads the charge for ...

Edward Tufte has a big backyard that stretches for hundreds of acres near Cheshire, Conn. Over the years, he's filled that space with giant metal sculptures as big as the trees. "I think it was ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Edward Tufte is the guru of graphics, the high priest of presentation. For more than 30 years he has been showing ...

"My father once told me that I would never be successful because I have too much contempt for authority," says Edward Tufte. "I think that's been an enormously successful strategy." At 67 ...

Inspired by Edward Tufte's "sparklines," the typeface turns typed numerals into inline data visualizations. This Data-Viz Tool Is As Easy To Use As A Post-It Note Beam makes charts and graphs ...