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If your words or images are not on point, making them dance in color won't make them relevant.

Edward Tufte

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

Edward Tufte

Of course statistical graphics, just like statistical calculations, are only as good as what goes into them. An ill-specified or preposterous model or a puny data set cannot be rescued by a graphic (or by calculation), no matter how clever or fancy. A silly theory means a silly graphic.

Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte

Edward Tufte

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Born: March 14, 1942 (age 84)

Bio: Edward Rolf Tufte is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization.

Known for:

Envisioning Information (1990)
Beautiful Evidence (2006)
Visual Explanations (1986)

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