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Edward Tufte [1942-0] American

Rank: 102
Educator, Statistician

Edward Rolf Tufte is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization.

Design, Hope, Computers, Great, Science, Technology

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I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.	Great	101
The minimum we should hope for with any display technology is that it should do no harm.	Hope, Technology	102
It is straightforward for me to be ethical, responsible, and kind-hearted because I have the resources to support that.		103
I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.	Hope	104
There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.		105
What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.		106
The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing.	Science	107
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.	Design	108
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.		109
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.		110
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.		111
If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.	Computers	112
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.		113
The point of the essay is to change things.		114
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.	Design	115
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.		116
The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.		117
The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime.		118
A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.		119
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.		120
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.		121
What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.		122
The speculative part of my work is that these particular cognitive tasks - ways of thinking analytically - are tied to nature's laws.		123
Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.		124

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