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 ...

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 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 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 ...

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Edward Tufte—one of the great visual minds of our time, described by The New York Times as “the Leonardo da Vinci of data” and by Business Week as “the Galileo ...

Many books and articles I’ve seen on drawing effective graphs say not to use grid lines. Why? Because they say Edward Tufte said so. In this post we’ll look at the exact words of Edward Tufte and see ...

Government and industry bureaucrats addicted to spewing out mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations, be very afraid; Edward Tufte is coming to Washington, DC. The Obama administration has appointed ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Inspired by Edward Tufte's "sparklines," the typeface turns typed numerals into inline data visualizations. This Data-Viz Tool Is As Easy To Use As A Post-It Note Beam makes charts and graphs simple ...