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Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative

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TUFTE Edward R

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cheshire, Conn., USA: Graphics Press, 1998Edition: rev edDescription: 156pISBN:

0961392126 (hbk.):

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Summary: Describes and illustrates design strategies for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause and effect. These strategies are found again and again in portrayals of explanations, regardless of the particular content or technology of the display. The first part of the book focuses on depiction of quantiative evidence or statistical data. The second part concentrates on the arrangement of images as narrative, and includes, for example, the concept and design of a computer interface guiding museum-goers to exhibits and facilties.

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Describes and illustrates design strategies for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause and effect. These strategies are found again and again in portrayals of explanations, regardless of the particular content or technology of the display. The first part of the book focuses on depiction of quantiative evidence or statistical data. The second part concentrates on the arrangement of images as narrative, and includes, for example, the concept and design of a computer interface guiding museum-goers to exhibits and facilties.

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