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Visual explanations : images and quantities, evidence and narrative / Edward R. Tufte.

Summary:

This book describes design strategies - the proper arrangement in space and time of images, words, and numbers - for presenting information about motion, process, mechanism, cause and effect.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0961392126
  • ISBN: 9780961392123
  • ISBN: 9781930824157
  • ISBN: 1930824157
  • Physical Description: 156 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
  • Publisher: Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, ©1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Images and quantities -- Visual and statistical thinking: displays of evidence for making decisions -- Explaining magic: pictorial instructions and disinformation design -- Smallest effective difference -- Parallelism: repetition and change, comparison and surprise -- Multiples in space and time -- Visual confections: juxtapositions from the ocean of the streams of story.
Additional Physical Form available Note:
Also issued online.
Action Note:
Self-Renewing 2017
Subject:
Visual communication.
Pattern Recognition, Visual.
Visual Perception.
Visual communication.
Visual perception > Pattern perception > Pattern Recognition, Visual > Nonverbal Communication.
Genre:
Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library P 93.5 .T84 1997 273353 Stacks Available -

Electronic resources

Related Resource: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366323

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