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Edward Tufte said, “the only worse design than ... In Thinking Outside the Chart Menu we used diverging stacked bar charts as an alternative to multiple pie charts when each pie represented ...
Tufte, professor emeritus at Yale ... but they cannot handle negative numbers. Bar graphs show the relative size of data well, if that is the format of your data. Data that occur over time ...
This is basically a bar chart, illustrated by hand with a level ... after clicking on the BibliOdyssey collection. Edward Tufte calls this one, created by Charles Jospeh Minard in 1869 ...
Many books and articles I’ve seen on drawing effective graphs say not to use grid lines. Why? Because they say Edward Tufte said so. In this post we’ll look at the exact words of Edward Tufte ...
"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 ...
Tufte is an accomplished grand-scale sculptor, but he is perhaps more famous for making charts, graphs and diagrams beautiful. He's been called the "DaVinci of Design" and the "Minister of ...