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 ...

Edward Tufte has been described by The New York Times as the "Leonardo da Vinci of Data." Since 1993, thousands have attended his daylong seminars... Edward Tufte, Offering 'Beautiful Evidence' Edward ...

While you are twiddling your trackball thumbs waiting for the DACA explosion. something slightly useful. I’ll take a worked example. Warning: the page below the fold is large, with many images, ...

Statistician Edward Tufte turns scientific notations into artwork. If you visit statistician and sculptor Edward Tufte’s farm in Connecticut, you’ll see something that gets to the heart of the person ...

NH copy 39088013192646 is a Gift of Margery Masinter. STRIMAIN copy 39088015890270 has bookplate, Gift of D. Ross Robertson. I: Graphical practice -- Graphical excellence -- Graphical integrity -- ...

THE Metro-North Railroad in the early ’80s published a pocket schedule of the arrival and departure times between New Haven and New York. In his book “Envisioning Information,” the information-design ...

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 ...