Envisioning Information | 
| Author: Edward R. Tufte
Publisher: Graphics Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 2252
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 126
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 0961392118
Dewey Decimal Number: 302.23
EAN: 9780961392116
ASIN: 0961392118
Publication Date: May 1990
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Amazon.com Review
A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. -- Rudolf Arnheim
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 Interesting and enjoyable December 7, 2008
Stimulates the visualisation of information with illustrations on every page and easy to read text. Provides many helpful ideas, as well as some `do and don't's. Some overlap with the other book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information / Envisioning Information).
 Thought provoking December 7, 2008
Envisioning Information is a scientific explanation of the importance of why data should be displayed in meaningful ways. The super graphics are well selected and combine perfectly with Tufte's original concepts into specifics of how we should envision data.
The work is in some ways academic but in my opinion represents one of the great works in the information visualization space.
(for some reason amazon will not let me select 5 stars)
Gorgeous but impractical November 22, 2008
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As a coffee table book, Envisioning Information is gorgeous. You will behold luscious colors, faithfully reproduced images with fine detail, and a fine collection of some of the best and worst of informative graphics. It's a splendid portfolio of some ingenious visual displays of complex information.
For theoreticians, it's a mind-jogger and demands a critical review of how you display information today. Are we being demanding enough? Simple enough? Clear enough? There is more than one way to display information and this portfolio challenges us to think harder.
As a practial guide, however, this tome is slim. It's a quick read - I went through it briskly in about two hours. And it does contain a few useful nuggets, especially the before-and-after images showing how too much color, over-heavy borders and other thoughtless ornamentation detracts from the information. However, it was not enough for me. I want a book chock full of practical guidance on how to convert data into clear information, and this book is a veritable beauty contest of successful images without much practical guidance so that practitioners could achieve the same.
Envisioning Information October 9, 2008
Book is in good condition, shipped quickly. I am very satisfied with this process and result.
Portable affordable art August 20, 2008
Tufte follows up his debut classic with an even more beautiful piece of graphic art disguised as a guide to ways to display three (and more) dimensions on a flat surface.
While even more beautifully crafted than The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition, it has less in the way of practical guidance. Tufte's principle here can be reduced to this far-reaching but not so simply-implemented statement: increase the resolution of "flatland" (paper or computer screen) to show more data to increase clarity.
As usual, the principle is lavishly illustrated with beautifully-reproduced examples of good and bad ways of envisioning information. In fact, I have found Tufte's principle and illustrations are useful ways of thinking about how to improve my own graphics, but I find my ability to implement them frustrated by the limitations of the design tools I use most: Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Word, wikis. That is a negative reflection on the tools, not on Tufte.
In any case, enjoy Tufte's books now for the portable affordable art that they are, and hope for the tools to catch up soon.
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