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Continuing with The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Tufte  goes into the specifics of distorting data and how to avoid it. He states that the main goal for an accurate depiction of the data is that the numerical representation matches the visual...

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After making his case as to why narrative is important to scientists, Olson has begun to dig into the exact tools he recommends. He begins with the importance of templates. The first template is the word template, where he recommends you summarize the central theme of...

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Continuing with my readings, I began Randy Olson’s Houston We Have a Narrative. Olson started his career as a marine biologist and later, after achieving tenure as a professor, went to film school and worked in Hollywood. The main purpose of this book is to make the...

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My readings this week have focused on some of the basics of effective graphics. Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information states one of the foundational elements of data graphic design as focusing on the story the data tells, rather than the details of...