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Tufte became well-known by publishing his harsh criticism of Microsoft PowerPoint.
I am certain that he was extremely well-known, even revered, in the graphic design community well before his PowerPoint essay. I believe it was The Visual Display of Quantitative Information that put him on the map. Anyone know for sure? If not, I'll do some research. -- Worrydream 06:10, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
VDQI was certainly a lot more commercially successful that his earlier work on Political Economy, which was very good, BTW. The criticism of the low standard of graphics facilitated by the ubiquity of Powerpoint, besides being valid, had the effect of bringing a whole new potential readership to his wonderful books. I think the article doesn't need have any hard-to-verify material about what did or did not make his reputation in any audience. DCDuring 14:22, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
Can someone who knows put information about how to pronounce "Tufte" on the page? Capybara 08:07, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
From the article:
Here "Guggenheim Foundation" links to Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. I guess what was really meant is the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. — Tobias Bergemann 14:08, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
There's a certain irony in the fact that bulleted text is used to convey the nature of Tufte's critique of PowerPoint, isn't there?--Ggbroad 01:09, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Tufte's criticism of PowerPoint has been skewered by Don Norman -- http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/in_defense_of_p.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.244.5.30 (talk) 18:12, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
I removed the following sentence:
because it makes no sense. If Tufte's prescribed practice is followed, the setting is not reduced to mere slides. Knoblauch must have written something else, or been misunderstood by the editor who added the reference. The cited paper is not available to me (behind a paywall), so I cannot correct the sentence, so move it here so that someone who has access to it might check what it actually says. MayerG (talk) 07:08, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
The quote from the article "Tufte argues strongly against the inclusion of any decoration in visual presentations of information" is a misrepresentation of his POV. In the citation request: Edward Tufte. "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information". Graphics Press, 2001. ISBN 0961392142. Chapters 5 and 6 in particular was provided as the source.
On page 13 of the book, one of the bullet items under "Graphical displays should" list "Serve a reasonably clear purpose: descriptions, exploration, tabulation, or decoration." On page 59 "Sometimes decoration can help editorialize about the substance of the graphic".
There needs to be a real quote here if someone wants to piggyback a controversial POV on the name of Edward Tufte. Oicumayberight 03:24, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Reg: "It has unhelpfully simplistic tables and charts, resulting from the low resolution of computer displays; " This really needs to be reworded: Tufte's use of the word "resolution" is in regards to the amount of information percieved by the audience and in the spirit of a picture being worth a thousand words; not the "resolution of computer displays", which is pixels, dots per inch, and screen width, resulting in a poor electronic display. A picture of what happens to a passenger not wearing a seatbelt during an accident has a higher resolution of information than a billboard that says "buckle up" and shows a picture of just a seat belt. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.7.13.194 (talk) 05:01, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
His Yale personal page is now simply a lk to [http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/ his publishing house, i guess.
--Jerzy•t 21:48, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
The sparklines are rather difficult to see -- unless you know what you're looking for, the sparklines appear to be absent at first. I'll look at his site for another example, though I'm fairly sure he usually favors gray for sparklines anyway. Seijihyouronka (talk) 20:30, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
Probably by himself and his followers. After all Mr. Tufte seems to be good in presenting - himself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.176.0.55 (talk • contribs)
His résumé says BS. Wikipedia says BA. Wikipedia's always wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.59.79.70 (talk) 02:01, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
Yug (talk) 03:06, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
Democracy Now has video of Aaron Swartz's memorial service,[2] at which Edward Tufte made a couple of claims which may or may not be noteworthy (or true):
A commenter on a blog post about Tufte's statements at the memorial service disputes the validity of the first claim. Without confirmation, I don't think it'd be appropriate to report these any of these things in the article just yet. But it might be something to keep an eye out for. If it is reported further, with any confirmation from AT&T, Bowen or JSTOR, it could probably be added. —mjb (talk) 23:48, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
He's mentioned in the wiki article about the Challenger disaster, and he's centered in a controversy regarding the assignment of the responsibility for the failure to stop the launch due to cold weather and the danger that presented to the rocket booster's o-rings. Effectively, he's blaming the engineers from Morton Thiokol, and they are saying Tufte is lying. I'm inclined to believe this as well. In any case, he's centered on the worst US space disaster in history, and some mention ought to be included in the article here. Jonny Quick (talk) 08:02, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
Could you have a look at this effort, here, to use clade diagrams to summarize pharma business acquisitions. My take at present is that the images created are devoid of standard quantitative meaning—nothing is captured by vertical and horizontal line lengths, as far as I can tell—and so they are a misapplication of this maths/graphic presentation method. Moreover, I argue that they are misleading (presenting a time axis, but not making spacing of events proportionate to the historical time differences), much harder to maintain (consider adding entries to a std Table versus this graphic), more likely to diminish article quality (in their ambiguity of content, again, over a std Table with clear headings), and therefore practically amenable to decay as a result. I would add to this, in this esteemed context, that they would make those who trained us, and other purists in methodology and meaning (and ET more generally), turn in their graves/beds. After having a look at the User page and at a couple of pages linked on that sandbox page, leave your opinion here, regarding the overall effort? Thanks for your opinion. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 01:37, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
Visual Explanations cover An editor clearly unfamiliar with our policies against edit-warring is repeatedly removing the book cover image: [3] [4]
This is NFC, it meets NFCC. If it doesn't work well enough for some editors, then we can work to fix that. Tufte is not known for his own appearance, but for his work and particularly this series of books. Presenting one of those covers, the cover of a book about the design of books is well within the scope of NFCC. Andy Dingley (talk) 17:01, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
Still no infp about his latest book - "Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth" https://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/seeing-with-fresh-eyes Please add. Bagfinder (talk) 18:55, 12 April 2021 (UTC)