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Edward Rolf Tufte was born in 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Virginia Tufte (1918–2020) and Edward E. Tufte (1912–1999). He grew up in Beverly Hills, California, where his father was a longtime city official.
The term was popularized by Edward Tufte. According to Tufte, At the heart of quantitative reasoning is a single question: Compared to what? Small multiple designs, multivariate and data bountiful, answer directly by visually enforcing comparisons of changes, of the differences among objects, of the scope of alternatives.
Edward Tufte documented a compact style in 1983 called "intense continuous time-series". [3] He introduced the term sparkline in 2006 for "small, high resolution graphics embedded in a context of words, numbers, images", [4] [5] which are "data-intense, design-simple, word-sized graphics". [6]
The term chartjunk was first coined by Edward Tufte in 1983. [1] The book was developed based on ideas and materials developed for a Princeton statistics course that Tufte co-taught with John Tukey. As a self-published book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Tufte claims that good design is founded in minimalist design
John Tukey and Edward Tufte pushed the bounds of data visualization; Tukey with his new statistical approach of exploratory data analysis and Tufte with his book "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information" paved the way for refining data visualization techniques for more than statisticians.
Tufte is a surname of Norwegian origin. Notable people with the name include: Virginia Tufte (fl. 1920s-2010s), American author and distinguished emerita professor of English; Edward Tufte (born 1942), American statistician, political scientist, graphic designer, and author; Bård Tufte Johansen (born 1969), Norwegian comedian
In 1982, Edward Tufte produced a book on information design called The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. The term information graphics tends to be used by those primarily concerned with diagramming and display of quantitative information, such as technical communicators and graphic designers.
Edward Tufte has written three critically acclaimed books that explain many of these principles. [1] [2] [3] Computer graphics has from its beginning been used to study scientific problems. However, in its early days the lack of graphics power often limited its usefulness.