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A Quote From Edward Tufte

In Weblog on 17 August 2008 tagged charts, Design, Graphics, information-visualisation, tufte with 3 comments

Edward Tufte, October 27, 2006:

"In choosing templates for workaday graphical productions, it is worthwhile to look for excellent, conventional templates. Conventional templates immediately solve a lot of graphical reading problems for the viewer of the display. But the classics are often classics because they are off-the wall, unconventional, idiosyncratic, one-off, brilliant, historically original performances. Tinkering with Minard's Napoleon's March is no better than an artist tinkering with Picasso's Guernica."

— Ask E.T. Museum Visits