This week’s New York piece by Christopher Bonanos, “The Minister of Information,” was the most unlikely spellbinder we’ve seen in our magazine in quite some time. Three big pages on a semi-obscure ...

At the end of his freshman year at Princeton, 42 years ago, Tim Ramis sought entry into an upper-division class titled, "Quantitative Analysis in Policy and Politics." In the ensuing interview, Ramis ...

This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Flora Lichtman. Up next: the man who wrote the book - well, the books, rather - on data visualization. He was doing infographics before everybody was doing infographics.

From the Washington Monthly article “The Information Sage: Meet Edward Tufte, The Graphics Guru to the Power Elite Who Is Revolutionizing How We See Data”: “Edward Tufte occupies a revered and ...

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Edward Tufte is most likely the world’s only graphic designer with roadies. “We own two of everything—amplifiers, digital projectors,” other A/V gear, he says. “One set moves up and down the West ...

Long called the Galileo of graphics, Edward Tufte is on the lecture circuit again (seems to happen eachspring and run through the summer). He's the iconoclast of analytical design -- inevitably, he ...

Among architects, and just about anyone else with a visual sensibility, Edward Tufte is a legendary figure thanks in part to his self-published books, particularly The Visual Display of Quantitative ...

Edward Tufte is a data viz pioneer, well-known for making complex information easy to parse. But the man is also fascinated with manipulating the physical world; he has transformed the rolling hills ...

Edward Tufte has a big backyard that stretches for hundreds of acres near Cheshire, Conn. Over the years, he's filled that space with giant metal sculptures as big as the trees. "I think it was ...

While you are twiddling your trackball thumbs waiting for the DACA explosion. something slightly useful. I finally bought Edward Tufte’s classic of graphical design The Visual Display of Quantitative ...