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If you like this type of thing... Having taken his one-day "class," I highly recommend it. A wonderful, saturated experience on how to structure data, and allowing it to become maximum-useful information. And no, he does not like PowerPoint. Ticket price includes his four hardbound books. (I don't work for him, get a kickback, etc.)
I do like the books I got to take home though.
Any other visualization/art posters I can buy online? To me it makes more sense to hang one of these than a cheap painting from an artist and embodies more of what I really believe in.
Here's a few I've been planning to have printed:
Human Spaceflight, everything to scale http://theorysend.com/uploads/bdcffe08190411f5095eabcc8860d3... from: https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/2niljz/human_spacefl...
Tree of Life, over time: http://e.fastcompany.net/multisite_files/codesign/slideshow/...
Evolution of US politics: http://xkcd.com/1127/large/
I was planning to get most of these printed on a board of some kind, so they be more durable than posters, although I haven't chosen a supplier yet.
Depending on your use of the poster and the printer you go with you may need a rights release from the artist, so often it's easier to find a commercial print and get it framed, if you are willing to have all that glass.
For a little background, Clausewitz writes about this in his famous book. When wondering how the enourmous losses came about, remember: - the Grande Armee was walking from Paris to Moscow, and quartering in the field along the way. - the army was fed (as routine for all pre-railway armies) by local looting. - the Russian response to this was to burn everything in the path of the advancing army that they might capture…
If you like this type of thing... Having taken his one-day "class," I highly recommend it. A wonderful, saturated experience on how to structure data, and allowing it to become maximum-useful information. And no, he does not like PowerPoint. Ticket price includes his four hardbound books. (I don't work for him, get a kickback, etc.)
I went with a small group and many had never heard of Tufte before. They were so turned off by the class that they swore him off before it was over.
Later, many of them came around after they read one of his books, which are excellent and his work has slowly become very influential with my group.
I think what Tufte does very well, is to bring a well reasoned critical eye to deconstructing other people's information displays. I don't think he's as good at synthesizing information displays -- his major work being the sparkline and his books. As a result he can come across as dismissive of other people's hard work.
The people who got the most out of his class seemed to be those that were already quite familiar with his method of critical review. I don't think I would bring people to his class who weren't already quite familiar with his methods.
It's also highly specialized to telling this particular story, it's very hard to adapt the techniques used in the graphic to more general uses, thus limiting in many ways what we can learn from it.
If you like this type of thing... Having taken his one-day "class," I highly recommend it. A wonderful, saturated experience on how to structure data, and allowing it to become maximum-useful information. And no, he does not like PowerPoint. Ticket price includes his four hardbound books. (I don't work for him, get a kickback, etc.)
I did not find his one-day lecture nearly as useful as MikeNomad did, I wouldn't recommend it myself. I do like the books I got to take home though.
