{"id":292,"date":"2022-02-19T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T13:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=292"},"modified":"2022-02-27T15:29:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T20:29:20","slug":"edward-tufte","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/chapter\/edward-tufte\/","title":{"raw":"Data Visualization Expert Edward Tufte","rendered":"Data Visualization Expert Edward Tufte"},"content":{"raw":"Statistician and artist<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Edward Tufte<\/a> wrote a book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information which provides a history of data graphics.\u00a0 Although the book was published in 1983, it is still considered one of the key books in this area.\u00a0 Tufte uses the term [pb_glossary id=\"588\"]chartjunk[\/pb_glossary] to describe poor data visualizations that either don\u2019t inform at all or providing misleading information due to the way the data is presented.\u00a0 He also recommends a strong [pb_glossary id=\"587\"]data-ink ratio[\/pb_glossary] where the data is presented as is and not distorted to provide misinformation or a form of editorializing of the data.","rendered":"<p>Statistician and artist<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwardtufte.com\/tufte\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Edward Tufte<\/a> wrote a book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information which provides a history of data graphics.\u00a0 Although the book was published in 1983, it is still considered one of the key books in this area.\u00a0 Tufte uses the term <button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"292-588\">chartjunk<\/button> to describe poor data visualizations that either don\u2019t inform at all or providing misleading information due to the way the data is presented.\u00a0 He also recommends a strong <button class=\"glossary-term\" aria-describedby=\"292-587\">data-ink ratio<\/button> where the data is presented as is and not distorted to provide misinformation or a form of editorializing of the data.<\/p>\n<div class=\"glossary\"><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"292-588\" hidden><p>Term coined by statistician Edward Tufte used to describe a chart or graph that misleads or distorts data.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"glossary__tooltip\" id=\"292-587\" hidden><p>Term coined by statistician Edward Tufte. It underscores the importance of providing data as is and avoiding any possible distortion or editorializing.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":388,"menu_order":3,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-292","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":249,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292\/revisions\/726"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/249"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/292\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/criticaldataliteracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}