Tufte Books

For more than a decade, Edward Tufte has been championing efficient, coherent and effective ways of presenting information. Through his books and seminars, Tufte has shown that the endless sea of information that we are forced to wade through does not have to be as dense and confusing as it often is.

Envisioning Information focuses on rendering complex and often three-dimensional information in two-dimensional space; on "escaping flatland" as he says. "The world is complex, dynamic, multidimensional; the paper is static, flat." Tufte presents hundreds of examples of effective information presentation, in the form of diagrams, maps, charts, timetables and more.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is the classic book on statistical graphics, charts, tables. Theory and practice in the design of data graphics, 250 illustrations of the best (and a few of the worst) statistical graphics, with detailed analysis of how to display data for precise, effective, quick analysis.