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[bugman]

Just picked up a copy of

"The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"
by Edward R. Tufte

for 10 dollars!

http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_vdqi

Same, small secondhand bookshop that I found BIOMETRY by Sokal and Rolf for the same price!

Its good to know these little independent bookshops can still be found.

 

[Dason]

Nice. I really like the Tufte book. I got it for Christmas one year! It was a really good gift.

 

[bugman]

Great gift Dason!

It really is an awesome book. Though some of the best graphs are stunning (i.e. Napoleons advance) I am equally intrigued by how bad some of them are

 

[Dason]

I am equally intrigued by how bad some of them are

Indeed! Although I'm also intrigued by how bad some graphics are that make it to print...

I saw a graph in my university's paper the other day that literally conveyed no information to the reader. At first glance it gave the impression that they were summarizing some data but upon further inspection one came to the realization that nothing of value could be obtained from the graphic. I'll see if I can find it somewhere... it gave my friends and I a good laugh before class.

 

[bugman]

I'll see if I can find it somewhere... it gave my friends and I a good laugh before class.

I would love to see it!

 

[gianmarco]

Hi,
just to inform that I find the book in PDF version (for free) on the Web.....


Gm

 

[bugman]

Thanks for the feedback GM. But call me old fashioned, in a similar way that I prefer having cds to mp3's I prefer having the real deal with books - especially great ones like this.

 

[gianmarco]

:wave:

I agree with you.....


Gm

 

[Dason]

Tufte's books are something that are really nice to have an actual physical copy of. They were created with print media in mind and it just works really well.

On top of that I don't have a kindle or an e-reader or anything like that so to read pdfs I just got my laptop. I find it difficult to read pdfs for hours on end on my computer whereas sitting down and enjoying a book is something that I can do for hours on end (if I have the time...)