Review of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Reviews the book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte (1983). It is not often that a book on a statistical subject proves to be not only technically excellent, but also a work of art. The text itself should be required reading for all those who produce or who must diges...

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Published inContemporary psychology Vol. 29; no. 8; p. 671
Main Author Hays, William L.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.08.1984
Subjects
Graphical Displays
Human
Information
Visual Displays
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ISSN0010-7549
DOI10.1037/023132

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Summary:Reviews the book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte (1983). It is not often that a book on a statistical subject proves to be not only technically excellent, but also a work of art. The text itself should be required reading for all those who produce or who must digest quantitative information visually displayed. The author starts by defining principles of graphical excellence and illustrating those principles and their violation with a wide variety of examples. The quality of the illustrations matches the high quality of the text itself. There are many examples, a number in color, skillfully chosen and arranged to bring home the points the author makes in the text. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
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ISSN:0010-7549
DOI:10.1037/023132