01/18/13

Edward Tufte Wants You to See Better

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Edward Tufte with Richard Feynman’s van, which sports one of the physicist’s eponymous diagrams.
Edward Tufte with Richard Feynman’s van, which sports one of the physicist’s eponymous diagrams.

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: sculpting Richard Feynman’s diagrams, and helping people “see without words.”

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Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte is a data scientist and artist and author of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Graphics Press, 1983; 2nd ed., 2001). He’s based in Cheshire, Connecticut.

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