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I don’t use Perl any more but Learning Perl was the first book that made me feel like I could do useful, interesting things with a computer language. The paragraph below stuck in my head. Now it reminds of Edward Tufte’s “one eyespan” principle for visualizations. I think Paul Graham and Doug Hoyt make similar assertion about breviy in their books. I guess concise is nice! It feels good to be compact.

Perl is a very high-level lanuage. That means that the code is quite dense; a Perl program may be around 30% to 70% as long as the corresponding program in C. This makes Perl faster to write, faster to read, faster to deug, and faster to maintain. It doesn’t take much programming before you realize that, when the entire subroutine is small enough to fit onscreen (...)

Beautiful Evidence(20006) page 176
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Beautiful Evidence(20006) page 176

Edward Tufte’s Beautiful Evidence, pages 174- 176, helped motivate me to start learning to visualize data. Every once in a while I check the on-line discussion on Tufte’s site, there always seems to be new additions

▻https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0000Jr

I started trying to make a similar plot in R but it didn’t go as quickly or smoothly as I had hoped. A quick on-line search showed me that people have been inspired by Edward Tufte’s books, and have also felt the urge to do similar work in the R language:

Edward Tufte’s book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information was transformative...

Tufte’s book was also a direct influence on the graphics system of the S Language (and also its successor, (...)

The Underappreciated Man Behind the “Best Graphic Ever Produced”
▻http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/charles-minard-cartography-infographics-history

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Charles Joseph Minard’s name is synonymous with an outstanding 1869 graphic depicting the horrific loss of life that Napoleon’s army suffered in 1812 and 1813, during its invasion of Russia and subsequent retreat. The graphic (below), which is often referred to simply as “Napoleon’s March” or “the Minard graphic,” rose to its prominent position in the pantheon of data visualizations largely thanks to praise from one of the field’s modern giants, Edward Tufte. In his 1983 classic text, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information,” Tufte declared that Napoleon’s March “may well be the best statistical graphic ever produced.”

#minard #cartographie #visualisation #sémiologie #précurseurs #cartoexperiment

Keynote Session : Dr. Edward Tufte - The Future of #Data Analysis | Microsoft Machine Learning & Data Science Summit 2016 | Channel 9
▻https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Machine-Learning-and-Data-Sciences-Conference/Data-Science-Summit-2016/MSDSS11

Data analysis seeks to learn from experience.  Better inferences require better thinking and better tools. Practical advice about how to make more credible conclusions based on data. What we can expect in the future, and what we should aspire to in the future.

Excellente présentation d’Edward Tufte sur les #données, leur représentation, leur analyse.

#visualisation #statistique

The Information Sage by Joshua Yaffa | The Washington Monthly
▻http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/features/the_information_sage029137.php?page=all

Alors : un long portrait de celui qu’on appelle le gourou de la visualisation, Edward Tufte. A lire et à discuter.

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One day in the spring of 2009, Edward Tufte, the statistician and graphic design theorist, took the train from his home in Cheshire, Connecticut, to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with a few members of the Obama administration. A few weeks earlier, he had received a phone call from Earl Devaney, a former inspector general in the Department of the Interior, who is best known for leading that agency’s investigation of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Devaney had recently been appointed head of the Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board, the body created by the Obama administration to keep track of the $780 billion in federal stimulus money that has spread out across the country.

Whereas Devaney once led a team of professional investigators responsible for sniffing out waste, fraud, and abuse, he was now faced with a rather different, but related, task: designing a Web site. In the stimulus bill, Congress had called for the creation of “user-friendly visual presentations” of data that would allow the American public to watch over the disbursement of the giant funding package. This wasn’t exactly familiar territory for Devaney, a career lawman. Perhaps Tufte could offer some advice?

#tufte #visualisation #cartographie

How Useful is Tufte for Making Maps? | Making Maps: DIY Cartography

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Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (1998, 2nd edition 2001) is a classic book, arguably his best, and certainly a key text in the field of information graphics (which encompasses cartography). I know some cartography courses use the book as a text.

I recall being inspired by the book as a neophyte cartographer back in the late 1990s.

The book looked great: its design communicated the importance of design (when most other cartography and information graphics books were clunky and poorly designed). The tone was serious and high-minded: I was designing information graphics. And I think I absorbed Tufte’s minimalist design philosophy, although cartographic design, at least the way I learned it, was largely minimalist, with no allowance for flourish, fake 3D embellishment, or other chartjunk (or “map-crap” as I call it in the Making Maps book).

#cartographie #tufte #krieger

La prochaine fois qu’on me demandera de faire du Powerpoint

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The Exposed City: A Brief History of Mapping the Urban Invisibles | Brain Pickings

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The Exposed City: A Brief History of Mapping the Urban Invisibles

by Maria Popova

From Ptolemy to MIT, or what Edward Tufte has to do with Google Earth and the future of understanding cities.

Cities, maps and data visualization are frequent obsessions around here, and the intersection of the three hits a sweet spot of the finest kind. But how did urbanism, cartography and information visualization first come together, and where are they going as bedfellows? That’s exactly what Nadia Amoroso explores in The Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles — an ambitious study of the invisible elements of the city, from demographics to traffic patterns to crime rate to environment, through “map-landscapes.” With a foreword by iconic information architect and TED founder Richard Saul Wurman, the book traces the work of pioneers across cartography, information design, urban planning and other disciplines that have historically shaped our understanding of place and spatial relations, alongside bleeding-edge projects from contemporary innovators across data visualization, open-source mapping and other facets of technology-empowered urbanism.

#urban_matter #cartographie #urban_design #visualisation

Edward #Tufte Wants You to See Better
▻http://www.npr.org/2013/01/18/169708761/edward-tufte-wants-you-to-see-better?sc=tw&cc=share

LICHTMAN: Is there a data that - sorry - is there a #data that can’t be #visualized well?
TUFTE: Not if you allow #artists into the arena.

Edward #Tufte : #PowerPoint Does Rocket Science — and Better Techniques for Technical Reports
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I � Unicode
▻http://seriot.ch/resources/talks_papers/i_love_unicode_softshake.pdf
#Unicode #programming

Clear Off the Table | Darkhorse Analytics Blog
▻http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/clear-off-the-table

In the gif below we start with a table formatted similar to one of Excel’s many styling options which, much like the chart styles, do nothing to improve the table. Progressive deletions and some reorganization deliver a clearer and more compelling picture.

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Et la même chose sur les #graphiques :

►http://darkhorseanalytics.com/blog/data-looks-better-naked

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#visualisation #tableau

Edward Tufte - FT.com

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Edward Tufte is the guru of graphics, the high priest of presentation. For more than 30 years he has been showing us how to visualise data with simplicity, clarity and elegance, while campaigning against “chartjunk” and other design practices that lead to obfuscation.

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Tufte, 71, was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. He started his academic career as a political scientist at Princeton University and moved seriously into data visualisation in 1975. He was prompted by a request to teach a statistics course; the low standard of statistical graphics available in the literature made him realise that he could do better himself.

#visualisation #infographie #cartographie #information_design

Edward Tufte - FT.com

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Signalé par Karen Bastien

Edward Tufte is the guru of graphics, the high priest of presentation. For more than 30 years he has been showing us how to visualise data with simplicity, clarity and elegance, while campaigning against “chartjunk” and other design practices that lead to obfuscation.

Tufte, 71, was born in Kansas City, Missouri and grew up in Beverly Hills, California. He started his academic career as a political scientist at Princeton University and moved seriously into data visualisation in 1975. He was prompted by a request to teach a statistics course; the low standard of statistical graphics available in the literature made him realise that he could do better himself.

#visualisation #tufte #cartographie

Edward Tufte’s One Day Course : A Review | eagereyes
►http://eagereyes.org/criticism/edward-tufte-one-day-course

Visiblement Robert Kosara n’a pas aimé l’atelier carto du grand gourou américain de la visualisation...

By Robert Kosara On August 5, 2012

Last Monday, I got to attend Edward Tufte’s one-day course. I was looking forward to a day of interesting examples, ideas, and discussions, but was disappointed by the amount of rambling and largely historical examples, with little connection to real, current visualization (or presentation) work.

Les jeunes européens, premières victimes du chômage - Google Maps

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Les jeunes européens, premières victimes du chômage
En Espagne, au Portugal, en Grèce, mais aussi en France, au Royaume-Uni, en Europe de l’Est, les taux de chômage des moins de 25 ans s’envolent. Premières victimes de la crise et des politiques d’austérité, les jeunes sont aussi les premiers à se révolter.

Réalisation : Elodie AUFFRAY et Maxime BODEREAU

Source : Eurostat

#cartographie #chômage #europe #révoltes

Un dossier sur le gourou américain de la représentation graphique, Edward Tufte

The Washington Monthly - The Magazine - The Information Sage

►http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/mayjune_2011/features/the_information_sage029137.php?page=1

The Information Sage

Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data.

By Joshua Yaffa

One day in the spring of 2009, Edward Tufte, the statistician and graphic design theorist, took the train from his home in Cheshire, Connecticut, to Washington, D.C., for a meeting with a few members of the Obama administration. A few weeks earlier, he had received a phone call from Earl Devaney, a former inspector general in the Department of the Interior, who is best known for leading that agency’s investigation of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Devaney had recently been appointed head of the Recovery Act Accountability and Transparency Board, the body created by the Obama administration to keep track of the $780 billion in federal stimulus money that has spread out across the country.

#cartographie #visualisation