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Author Tufte, Edward R., 1942- author, book designer.

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

Imprint Cheshire, Conn. : Graphics Press, ©1997.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Kansas Collection J Schick  302.222 T816e 1997    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 156 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 28 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
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.
Subject Visual communication.
Pattern Recognition, Visual. (DNLM)D010364
Visual Perception. (DNLM)D014796
Visual communication. (OCoLC)fst01167997
Visual perception -- Pattern perception -- Pattern Recognition, Visual -- Nonverbal Communication.
Added Author Krasny, Dmitry, bookjacket designer.
ISBN 0961392126
9780961392123
9781930824157 (pbk.)
1930824157 (pbk.)
Standard No. 9780961392123

 
    
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