EDWARD TUFTE
Born in KANSAS CITY, MO in 1942. Grew up in Beverly Hills, CA. Tufte is known for his solutions for visually communicating data. He has written seven books on information design and visual literacy. All of his books on analytical design are personally written, illustrated, and published by Tufte himself.He is by trade a statistic extraordinaire but also a Professor of Emeritus of Statistics, political economy and information design at Yale University. He has had clients such as the Guggenheim Foundation as well as Center for Advanced Studies in Behavioral Sciences. He has quite a sense of humor: check out his article bashing Microsoft Power Point: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html
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nicely done, like the inclusions of the links to extend the information
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