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- ISBN: 9780961392178
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40 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Jul 01, 2008 Type: User Review |
Weak
If you are looking for guidance on metrics presentation or insight, pass right by this book. The pictures are nice enough I suppose; but there are many, many, and I mean many, other books, Tufte's included, that are significantly more worthwhile.
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 1.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 20, 2008 Type: User Review |
The least of the Four Books
This book does not hold up in comparison to the first 3 from Tuft. This appears to be made up of a number of unconnected papers. The most important in my opinion is the introduction of sparklines. It's worthwhile to revisit Minard, The inclusion...
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 3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Jun 14, 2008 Type: User Review |
Flawed
I am a big fan of Edward Tufte and his previous books. So I was excited when I was given this new book last year. Unfortunately it took a full year to work through it since it's full of bad writing, redundant graphics, boring topics, and pet...
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 2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 26, 2008 Type: User Review |
A worthwhile read, if you have time to take it all in...
Beautiful Evidence
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 4.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: May 22, 2008 Type: User Review |
Great for the Undergraduate Classroom
Edward Tufte is a Yale political scientist turned information architect who brings 1500 years of analytic design together (including the histories of science and art) to create a very unique presentation that ET delivers in person each year to...
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 5.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
Beautiful Evidence
While a Tufte fan for 10 years, this seemed to be a rehash of the same...was expecting more visuals...I bought this sight unseen--will not do that again from him.
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2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Apr 03, 2008 Type: User Review |
Wonderful and eclectic
This book covers the gamut of the published works of Isaac Newton, the review of the Challenger Disaster ( A telling indictment of PowerPoint) and a review of where PowerPoint fails badly in so many ways ( yes he does not care for it) through to...
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3.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Dec 03, 2007 Type: User Review |
Amusing but not useful
Tufte's work is fun to look at, thought provoking, opinionated, and not usually very practical to apply. This book was a bit disappointing. The preachy section on power point was annoying and unhelpful, since many of us do have to present...
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2.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 20, 2007 Type: User Review |
Utter disappointment
There is little here that was not in Tufte's previous, amazingly good, books on graphics and information design. Napoleon goes to Moscow? Powerpoint? Yep, seen those before. Observations on baseball and art do make up for a lack of something to...
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1.00/5 |
| From: Amazon Posted: Nov 06, 2007 Type: User Review |
Another Amazing Tufte Publication
This is yet another amazing Tufte publication. Consistent with Tufte's earlier publications, this book is composed beautifully, in terms of the quality of paper stock, ink and clarity. The book is as much a work of art as a treatise on the...
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5.00/5 |
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