MetaFilter posts tagged with Tufte

Tufte x jQuery = awesome

gen — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:53:16 -0800

Craig Mod, who you may remember was the developer of geographic news attention index buzztracker.org, has developed a new interface to the 2008 election: Everymoment Now. In short, Everymoment Now is tracking hundreds of news sources on the election and is filtering the news to provide a view of the news that you might not otherwise have. You can see whether Obama or McCain had more news coverage on which day, the popularity trends with both Obama and McCain in the news, which key words were popular and the trends for the popularity of those keywords, and more. You even get cool jQuery-driven sparklines for keyword popularity trends.

HistoryShots—information-related history graphics

cgc373 — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:41:58 -0800

Looking for the graphic "The Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music" I remembered from Tufte, I found HistoryShots. [previous mention]

Rethinking Software Look&Feel

Gyan — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:14:35 -0800

Magic Ink - Information Software and the Graphical Interface

Edward Tufte's iPhone Bonus

tombola — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 02:12:01 -0800

Edward Tufte bought an ad (for his wonderful new book) on the front page of NYTimes.com, which ran for 24 hours on 26th November. Imagine how pleased he was when Steve Jobs used that day's paper to demo the iPhone.

an extremely simple technique

signal — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:58:18 -0800

Lightweight data exploration: simple, sparkline-esque graphs in Excel.via infosthetics.

Sparklinkes Web Service

signal — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:48:39 -0800

A Bright, Shiny Service: Sparklines A web service implementation of Edward Tufte’s sparklines idea, in Python.

This Quantitative Information, it vibrates?

fatllama — Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:20:28 -0800

A chapter from Edward Tufte's upcoming book is online. [link contains roughly 2.2 MB of scanned images] Tufte, discussed here previously and author of what could be called the Strunk and White for scientists, statisticians, producers and consumers of visual information, takes a stab at a few issues right up the average MeFite's alley: the 9/11 commission report, fraudulent medical studies, and the rather dubious quantitative work of this unfortunate economist/art historian. For the ShillFilter suspicious, check out some of the great threads that haunt his site.

i_am_joe's_spleen — Fri, 07 Dec 2001 23:30:30 -0800

The Gettysburg Powerpoint Presentation The best illustration ever of why friends don't let friends use Powerpoint. Some blame a decline in oratory and rhetoric on the television. I blame the temptation to lean on decorative visual crutches.