Amazon.com Review: A remarkable range of examples for the idea of visual thinking, with beautifully printed pages. A real treat for all who reason and learn by means of images. -- Rudolf Arnheim
Eye opener I have gained a new insight into the art of data presentation. My presentations will benefit. Making the complex accessible and beautiful.
Interesting and enjoyable Stimulates the visualisation of information with illustrations on every page and easy to read text. Provides many helpful ideas, as well as some `do and don't's. Some overlap with the other book (The Visual Display of Quantitative Information / Envisioning Information).
Thought provoking Envisioning Information is a scientific explanation of the importance of why data should be displayed in meaningful ways. The super graphics are well selected and combine perfectly with Tufte's original concepts into specifics of how we should envision data.
The work is in some ways academic but in my opinion represents one of the great works in the information visualization space.
(for some reason amazon will not let me select 5 stars)
Gorgeous but impractical As a coffee table book, Envisioning Information is gorgeous. You will behold luscious colors, faithfully reproduced images with fine detail, and a fine collection of some of the best and worst of informative graphics. It's a splendid portfolio of some ingenious visual displays of complex information.
For theoreticians, it's a mind-jogger and demands a critical review of how you display information today. Are we being demanding enough? Simple enough? Clear enough? There is more than one way to display information and this portfolio challenges us to think harder.
As a practial guide, however, this tome is slim. It's a quick read - I went through it briskly in about two hours. And it does contain a few useful nuggets, especially the before-and-after images showing how too much color, over-heavy borders and other thoughtless ornamentation detracts from the information. However, it was not enough for me. I want a book chock full of practical guidance on how to convert data into clear information, and this book is a veritable beauty contest of successful images without much practical guidance so that practitioners could achieve the same.
Envisioning Information Book is in good condition, shipped quickly. I am very satisfied with this process and result.
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