Beautiful Evidence

Beautiful Evidence

Edward R. Tufte

出版时间

2006-04-30

文件格式

PDF

文件大小

26.03MB

评分

★★★★★
内容简介

Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates visual information. Beautiful Evidence is about how seeing turns into showing, how data and evidence turn into explanation. The book identifies excellent and effective methods for showing nearly every kind of information, suggests many new designs (including sparklines), and provides analytical tools for assessing the credibility of evidence presentations (which are seen from both sides: how to produce and how to consume presentations). For alert consumers of presentations, there are chapters on diagnosing evidence corruption and PowerPoint pitches. Beautiful Evidence concludes with 2 chapters that leave the world of pixel and paper flatland representations - and move onto seeing and thinking in space land, the real-land of three-space and time.

用户评论
设计不是一切,缺乏设计则是自暴自弃。我在一个没有美感的办公室,写着没有美感的报告。
确实是非常有启发~~看的打印版。。呃。。写作中
文字多可读性强,可是图太老了跟不上现在visualization的形式感⋯⋯只有一页NNN年前的infographic惊为天人,让我好生吐槽大家都用电脑倒着爬了呀⋯⋯!
可翻读。
俺们外行人也就看个热闹吧~
Tufte 的系列书的一本,介绍了一些糟糕的 visualization 的例子和他自己的观点,这本书还专门花了一章来批评 power point,虽然大部分观点都比较中肯,但是不得不说也有一些强烈的个人偏好在里面。不过作者试图用 visualization 的方法去解决一切问题,特别是有些用数值或者统计分析会更有效的场景有点牵强了。整本书感觉有点零散,像是闲聊,而且这种完全中立话题的书里穿插太多政治立场也让人觉得很不 professional。
前半本很有趣,关于图像的信息和信息的图像,对PP的批判也句句在理,但信息量少得多,pedestals感觉就是为了引出自己作品没有基座而写的。
Evidence is evidence.
不限于数据可视化,而是更广泛的信息可视化,涉及多个领域多种形式(images;sparklines;links and causal arrows; text+image; Napoleon...-principle;5 corruption in evidence presentation;PPT; sculpture pedestals 后两个有些讨论不太认同)。 关联阅读到Feynman-Cargo Cult Science(结尾提到心理学重复性和显著性的问题)。
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