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“Stunning considerations for how to solve complex information visualization issues.”
Timothy N wrote this review Sunday, August 23 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This is the third book of Tufte I read (check also Visual Explanations and Envisioning Information). My impression about BE is that’s a book which somewhat summarizes previous texts (also the chapter about PowerPoint is an old article recycled); in fact most significant examples of them are still reported here. The biggest innovations introduced are the chapter about the sparklines, a great tool which helps conducting quantitative analysises, and the one regarding depestalization, interesting but mostly unrelated with the rest of the book. In my opinion this is a very good book which can (at least partially) “replace” previous three ones, for this reason it will be most enjoyed by Tufte newbies while who already has them can save the money.”
Baldo wrote this review Sunday, August 9 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Edward Tufte did it again. Perhaps his best book yet, in my opinion.”
Lester Nelson, of Ferdinand Center for the Creative wrote this review Thursday, May 7 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“This book is about communication.
Antonio wrote this review Saturday, February 21 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
When you want to present information to an audience you do so for a reason. That reason soon becomes a goal and there are better and worse ways to achieve that goal.
This book glances in deep through the beautiful ways, the sneaky, unethical ways, the lazy, ugly ways and the plain stupid ways (there is a whole brilliant chapter dedicated to demolish the culture of power point presentations, very funny and very sad too)
In brief, not only a book of insight but one that also does what it preaches: it is beautifully made and brings its message nicely to the reader.”
“A wonderful book by Tufte, perhaps his best. I have enjoyed reading and re-reading this one.”
dsohigian wrote this review Sunday, November 25 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“A nice book, but certainly not Tufte's best. It does have some interesting words about medieval design, and also contains The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint if you didn't manage to grab the pamphlet.”
RabbitWatch wrote this review Wednesday, November 14 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Tufte is the self-appointed guru of analytical graphics (largely, because no one else has risen to the occasion). All of his books on data graphics are well-written, beautifully published (he started his own press because he couldn't find anyone to meet his standards), and chock full of gorgeous examples. But the series is tarnished by redundancy. You could read The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and either Envisioning Information or Visual Explanations to get 95% of his ideas. They are wonderful books to have on the shelf for both reference and the joy of owning such beautifully produced books.”
mmolino54 wrote this review Thursday, October 11 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The most recent of Tufte’s books, it contains bits from each of the others. Tufte does an amazing job communicating how the design of information can dramatically effect not only its impact, but also its usefulness. The book focuses more on design visualization than strategy, but after reading it, you can't help but start thinking and viewing data in completely different, and more strategically appropriate, ways. ”
DesignThinkingDallas wrote this review Monday, October 8 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“Essential theory for commercial and accademic visual displays.”
iLoveGrilledCheese wrote this review Monday, July 23 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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