Edward Tufte: Presenting Data and Information
March 30, 2008 – 2:13 amI had a chance to attend an Edward Tufte class this past week and it truly was a pleasure. He has published a number of beautiful books on presentation and the visualization of data. So, it was quite a treat to sit in on a presentation by someone that teaches about giving presentations for a living. The class was engaging, full of content, and certainly left me with a sense of excitement. the class One big take away for me was that clutter and the sense of being overwhelmed by data is not an attribute of too much information, but rather a consequence of poor design. How many times have you looked at an information dashboard or a chart in a meeting only to get a headache from trying to grasp what was trying to be communicated? But yet we are capable of navigating and internalizing large amount of information if it ...