EDWARD TUFTE

From: tu✧✧✧@graphicspr✧✧✧.c✧✧
Subject: Re: Message from UK courses (sent through edwardtufte.com)
Date: 31 January 2008 16:34:18 GMT
To: me

Unfortunately, no!

From: me
Date: 2008/01/30 Wed PM 03:40:34 EST
To: tu✧✧✧@graphicspr✧✧✧.c✧✧
Subject: Message from UK courses (sent through edwardtufte.com)

Hi,

are there any tentative plans for more UK courses from
Professor Tufte?

Thanks,
-- Mike

Graphics Press LLC
PO Box 430
Cheshire CT 06410
http://www.edwardtufte.com/
Phone: 203 272-9187
Fax: 203 272 8600

he broek hart!

books: A+
1-day course: B-
total: B+

he's the presentation guru or something, what's so great about him?

his books on visual evidence are fucking amazing and beautiful!

was thinking about getting a print for my dad

yeah... great books for visualization. (my first couple jobs.)

this thread needs sparklines

I am looking at mr tufte right now, waiting for the course to start

dispatches from the belly of the databeast

oh god

has he brought his antique prints? tell him he needs to come to Oxford.

^^^my new catch phrase

someone yellow card me for that post.

lol

have not seen any antique prints but there is a very olde book at the presenting table. will inquire about oxford + uk in general.

presen not bad so far

he gets the old book out later one! exciting!

later on.

olde book did come out... an original 1570 first english trans of euclid's the elements of geometrie.

second section has picked up. if you see him I recommend sitting somewhere in front. got a little chill when tufte shoved an original copy of galileo's 1613 history and demonstrations concerning sunspots in my face and pointed to the only passage where g explicitly stated the earth moves around the sun before the church warned him on pain of death never to do so again

this edition of Euclid pleases me: http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/DigitalMathArchive/Euclid/byrne.html

http://www.sunsite.ubc.ca/DigitalMathArchive/Euclid/byrne1.gif

aka the mondrian edition

what's good about tufte is that he's not precious about any of this - he calls (literally) bullshit on design elements that get in the way of content transmission. a practical, straightforward take on esoteric material.

also some boxcar the grouch moments - while waving around the euclid book he asked with a smile "will your website be around in 430 years?"

what's good about tufte is that he's not precious about any of this - he calls (literally) bullshit on design elements that get in the way of content transmission. a practical, straightforward take on esoteric material.

also some boxcar the grouch moments - while waving around the euclid book he asked with a smile "will your webs

argh blackberry boxcar

did he say anything about oxford?

I asked him about uk tour in general, he said it's something he'd like to do very much but he's had trouble finding a local agent to handle the complexities of the show.

now, I interpret this as a local agent who will put up with tufte's excrutiating attention to detail. his roadshow isn't laurie anderson performing united states, it doesn't seem all that complex, it's a couple of large projection screens, a headset/pa for him, and a roadie to run the av so he can focus on delivery. but he seems like the type who could put a "sensible" business person through some lynchian level of insane particulars.

I am going to email that lynchian mother fucker and offer my services.

emailed.

http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0003e0&topic_id=1#

caek did he ever reply to u

no : (

another shameful decision from obama to select this goon

has he brought his antique prints? tell him he needs to come to Oxford.

― caek, Monday, September 22, 2008 4:44 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^my new catch phrase

― update prefs (ice crӕm), Monday, September 22, 2008 4:47 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lololo

guys he is liquidating his collection of old books

http://christies.scene7.com/s7/brochure/flash_brochure.jsp?company=Christies&sku=2400_SaleCat&config=Christies/eCat_210x267_TOC&locale=en&wb=000000

gonna pick that catalog up on ebay in the new year iirc

i am going to his workshop next week

such elegant figures

I expect a full report with diagrams

if you are an academic then the workshop is $200 and you get copies of all four books, so it's basically buy the books, get the workshop free.

(i sold my copies when i moved to the us)

The doors open at 8.45. Office hours for questions and autographs, and warm-up reading period from 8.45 to 9.45. The course will begin at 10 am. Lunch is on your own from 1.15 to 2.15, and the course ends at 4.00.

Please, no beeping beepers or ringing cell phones during the course. Also note that wireless access will not be available in the room.

tufte

http://cres1.lancs.ac.uk/~esarie/gifs/tuftyfnt.jpg

he showed an xkcd cartoon ;_;

fuuuuuck

which one

lol

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/find_you.jpg

ha just kidding

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/university_website.png

tbf it was actually to make a good point that the hierarchy of a website often mimics the hierarchy of the organization, rather than the hierarchy of the information it presents

which was one of TBL's original point with this figure:

http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/w3c/Image1.gif

yeah i really hate to admit it but that comic hits home for me

the information isn't organized like the organogram in the bottom right

yeah i think it's probably the best xkcd comic

apart from that one with a pencil sketch of robert smith

also you get copies of his books, but they are perfect-bound softback, not hardback

what a rip

i read an interview w him where he was explaining how many books hes sold and how much his seminars cost and how many hes done and so forth he didnt come right out and add it up for you but damn that guy has made millions of dollars off just telling people about stuff hes super into

$400/$200 for academics, must have been 500 people in the room, 500 people again today. i figure that's at least 250k for two days work. he does 20 of these courses a year.

he must take home over a million/yr just from the courses alone, even after room/staff overheads

you dont need a chart to understand that am i right folks

it wasn't a great day tbh. lunch was late so the pm session was only going to be 1h, so i left at the start of lunch.

your tax dollars at work.

he seemed a little doddery tbqh, and he's sold all his old books, so there's no priceless objects to pass round

the most recent book is *nice* though. had never seen it in the flesh.

the hierarchy of a website often mimics the hierarchy of the organization, rather than the hierarchy of the information it presents

wish I could go back in time and engrave this on the heads of a bunch of people I worked with

Edward Tufte ‏@EdwardTufte 1m
"Fox News: Obama to Force All Americans to Buy Pot" http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2014/01/fox-obama-to-force-all-americans-to-buy-pot.html
Borowitz parodies = A

smh

tufte! borowitz? noooooo

where is that article about how tufte makes his money?

is it only in my mind?

prob just something we speculated abt itt

data viz tony robbins

i usually just cite this article

$400/$200 for academics, must have been 500 people in the room, 500 people again today. i figure that's at least 250k for two days work. he does 20 of these courses a year.

― caek, Friday, October 11, 2013

+ corporate/government consulting + selling self published books

ol tuftes doin okay