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  1. Minimum Ink Principle: The ratio of ink that conveys information vs the total ink used should approach unity.
    -- Edward Tufte

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Publishing

    #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Florida

  2. The single biggest threat to learning the truth is cherry-picked data.
    -- Edward Tufte (Presenting Data and Information Short Course)

    #Wisdom #Quotes #EdwardTufte #Communication #Data #Presentations

    #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

  3. Tufte has an awesome description of complexity buried in the Third Principal for the Analysis and Presentation of Data:

    "The only thing that is 2-dimensional about evidence is the physical flatland of paper and computer screen. Flatlandy technologies of display encourage flatlandy thinking. Reasoning about evidence should not be stuck in 2 dimensions, for the world we seek to understand is profoundly multivariate. Strategies of design should make multivariateness routine, nothing out of the ordinary. To think multivariate, show multivariate."

    #Complexity #Minard #AnalyticalDesign #EdwardTufte #BeautifulEvidence

  4. I am reading Edward Tufte's incredible tome "Beautiful Evidence" and it connects my data nerd with my design nerd so well. It has me thinking about all kinds of ways evidence is designed in #SRE.

    Searching for some online resources, I found what looks like an amazing course, and the whole syllabus is apparently in GitHub pages. Here's the one on the thing I learned about today, Charles-Joseph Minard's map of the War of 1812:

    badriadhikari.github.io/DV/wee

    #Minard #Napoleon #WarOf1812 #AnalyticalDesign #EdwardTufte #BeautifulEvidence

  5. Comment designer des tableaux clairs et efficaces ?
    Quelle forme de présentation de données choisir entre tableaux et graphiques, des bonnes pratiques de représentation de l'information en tableau et leur traduction en développement web.
    teotimepacreau.fr/blog/designe
    #WebDev #UX #UI #MatthewButterick #CharlieMunger #Tufte #EdwardTufte

  6. #EdwardTufte offers two #principles for making efficient graphical representations:
    1️⃣ Erase non-data-ink.
    2️⃣ Erase redundant data-ink.

    Did you know that in #LabPlot (#free, #opensource) you can apply the #EdwardTufte #theme to your #charts in a single click? :boost_love:

    @[email protected]

    Try it now:
    1️⃣ Download #LabPlot: labplot.org/download.
    2️⃣ File > Open Example > 'Tufte's Minimal Ink Design'

    #Physics #Chemistry #DataVisualization #Data #Research #Engineering #Science #DataViz #FOSS #FLOSS

  7. Should the legend text color follow the plot (line, symbol etc.) color or have a uniform color? Which one do you prefer?

    #LabPlot (nightly) supports both cases.

    #DataAnalysis #DataVisualization #Visualization #Plot #Chart #Color #EdwardTufte #Sparklines #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS

  8. You can also display #sparklines in the header of a spreadsheet in #LabPlot, an open source and cross-platform data visualization and analysis software.

    #EdwardTufte

  9. Edward Tufte suggests two principles for making efficient graphical representations:
    ▶️ Erase non-data-ink, within reason.
    ▶️ Erase redundant data-ink, within reason.

    In #LabPlot you can apply Tufte's "Maximal Data, Minimal Ink" theme for plots with a single click via Theme > Tufte.

    #DataAnalysis #DataVisualization #EdwardTufte #Sparklines #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS