Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

Edward R. Tufte

ISBN 10: 0961392126 / ISBN 13: 9780961392123

Editore: Graphics Press, Chesire, Conn., 1997

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Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press, 1997. FIRST EDITION. Second printing, with revisions. Hardcover. Beige cloth with red spine and cover lettering. Fine in a near fine dust jacket, which has a small sticker-removal scruff. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A clean, tight copy. Oblong quarto, 157 pages including index. Lavishly illustrated throughout with over 100 full-color and black-and-white images, charts, diagrams, and historical engravings. Tufte s third major work on analytical design, featuring extended visual case studies on the 1854 cholera epidemic, 19th-century magic illusions, and the Challenger explosion highlighting how visual miscommunication can have fatal consequences.

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• Titolo: Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
• Editore: Graphics Press, Chesire, Conn.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0961392126
• ISBN 13: 9780961392123
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Edizione: 1st Edition
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Near Fine

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Riassunto

Describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause, and effect. Examines the logic of depicting quantitative evidence.