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24 quotes by Edward Tufte

Edward Rolf Tufte (/ˈtʌfti/; born 1942) is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization.
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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

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I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.

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The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.

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The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.

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I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal... →

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What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the... →

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My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to... →

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That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time... →

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The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.

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My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.

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Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.

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