Thu, Dec. 6th, 2007, 07:00 pm
Screw Clapton. . .

. . .Tufte is God.

Today [info]karl and I attended Edward Tufte's one-day course on presenting data and information. It was tremendously valuable. His talk was compelling and engaging and I think we both left with some tangible and substantive ideas for improving FlightAware and with a much better appreciation for the topics covered in Tufte's excellent books.

It takes a special sort of speaker to get me motivated and inspired by statistics.

He'll be in Austin next Monday and Tuesday. If you can make time I highly recommend the course.
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Fri, Dec. 7th, 2007 01:14 am (UTC)
[info]ghewgill

I would love to attend that course. I've got a copy of The Visual Display of Quantitative Information which is nearly a work of art.

It's a bit sad that http://edwardtufte.com is kind of web 1.0. :)
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Fri, Dec. 7th, 2007 04:45 am (UTC)
[info]_fool

all of his books are works of art, IMNSHO.

I've never seen him talk and am still waiting for someone else to pay for me to go, but someday, i hope to see him. his ideas are beautiful, and his presentation, superb.
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Fri, Dec. 7th, 2007 03:41 am (UTC)
[info]taral

*jealous*
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Fri, Dec. 7th, 2007 03:42 am (UTC)
[info]j0nkatz

Anything has to be better than the week long Exchange 2007 class I was subject to last week.
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Fri, Dec. 7th, 2007 07:09 am (UTC)
[info]goulo

His books were among the few I had second thoughts about purging when I moved (but I was ruthless anyway!) Cool stuff indeed.
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Fri, Dec. 7th, 2007 02:15 pm (UTC)
[info]stenz

Hey, he's in Boston in March, maybe I will try and go or at least send my designer.

When I worked at a (learning) game development place, they sent a few of the designers to that course and they came back in awe.
Although I am not sure that their work changed one bit.
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