There are many true statements about complex topics that are too long to fit on a PowerPoint slide.
From Edward Tufte
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
A practical part of my teaching is to provide demonstrative, hands-on experiences.
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
I think it is important for software to avoiding imposing a cognitive style on workers and their work.
That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.
The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
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