![]() ![]() To me, these mostly boil down to short-on-substance problems. Other reviewers have mentioned a few negatives. Getting your teeth drilled is more pleasant than a slide show of Tufte's sculpture garden accompanied by his pedantic narcissism. I would also suggest a trip to the dentist over paying for one of Tufte's seminars. If you want to see great (and fun) visual displays on the web, then hit, and. The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures by Dan Roam Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery by Garr Reynolds If you're looking for actual help in visual display using the tools most of us have at our disposal (not the extremely expensive software that Tufte suggests) then look elsewhere for help. If Tufte intended his book as irony, then bravo. The most amazing thing about this book is its incessant use of verbiage instead of visual display. This is a somewhat interesting book for the catalogue of historical visual presentations, but has little to offer someone working today. A picture is worth a thousand words, but Tufte would rather right it all down. ![]()
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