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Annotated Bibliography

http://www.easybib.com

  1.

Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics, 2000. Print.

Author Background:

Edward Tufte was a professor at Yale University who taught political science, statistics and computer science. He is best known for his books on information design.

 Summary:

Visual Explanations is Tufte’s third book on information design. It has been described as a work that centers on dynamic data, or information that changes over time. The book covers many topics including how to stop a cholera epidemic in London during 1854 and whether the NASA charts could have been improved so that the space shuttle Challenger disaster would have been avoided. There is a chapter devoted to showing how magic tricks are preformed because these tricks take visual steps to display how the illusion is performed. The book introduces the theory of “the smallest effective difference” which is the best way to make visual distinctions is to make them as subtle as possible but still clear and effective.

(Summary: 120 words)

 2.

Murgio, Matthew P. Communications Graphics. New York: Van Nostrand, 1969. Print.

Author Background:

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 Summary:

This book is mostly about charting data but it does a great job in introducing use to data design and visual information. It begins by exploring how we learn. Site becomes the primary sense we use to teach and learn. It goes on to explain that people remember what they see and hear. The book explains the core reasons to chart data are to amplify and reinforce written or verbal text. It touches on reasons to not chart and to chart data. There is an extensive section on the types of charts and what situations call for using which charts. Scale is important in showing change within a graphic. The pictorial charting section is probably the best chapter to explore with your eyes. It is littered with pictograms, maps, flow charts, process charts, and org charts.

(Summary: 136 words)

 3.

Wildbur, Peter, and Michael Burke. Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998. Print.

Author Background:

Peter Wildbur is an author of a couple of design books - Information Graphics: A Survey of Typographic, Diagramatic and Cartographic Communication & International Trademark Design.

Michael Burke was a professor of graphic design the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbish Gmünd, one of Germany's leading design schools.

 Summary:

An interesting part of this book is the look to the future of information design. It talks about how users of public transportation will have the same amount of data presented to them as airplane travelers do. This has already happened because of smart phones and GPS tracking of vehicles. Also, advances in car navigation and heads-up displays on windshields will help identify important navigation and informational data. Imagine sitting in an airplane and you can watch what the pilots are seeing. But the geography is labeled. There is a LEGO assembly manual that showcases 3D designs that help show how to put together a vehicle. It is a great example of information design.

(Summary: 114 words)

 4.

McCandless, David. Knowledge Is Beautiful. New York: Harper Design, 2014. Print.

Author Background:

David is a British data-journalist and information designer.

“David McCandless is an award-winning writer, journalist, and copywriter. He has written for The Guardian, the Independent, Maxim, Stuff, and Wired; and has won two Webby awards.” –Amazon

 Summary:

This book has an introduction and that is the only part that is written text. Everything else is a graphic. It is an amazing book for inspiration and visual examples to prove a point within a discussion about data design. I am including it here for image references.

(Summary: 48 words)

 5.

Tufte, Edward R. The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, Conn. (Box 430, Cheshire 06410): Graphics, 2001. Print.

Author Background:

Edward Tufte was a professor at Yale University who taught political science, statistics and computer science. He is best known for his books on information design.

 Summary:

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is Tufte’s first book on information design. When people talk about data visualization they think of this book. It has lots of historic visualizations. One that gets mentioned a few times is the march of Napoleon’s army to Russia. It plots six different variables: the size of the army, its location on a map, the direction the army is moving and the temperature on various dates during the retreat from Moscow. Tufte calls it “the best statistical graphic ever drawn.” In chapter two he goes over graphical integrity or lying with charts. He introduces the reader to the “data-ink ratio”. It basically means less is more. Don’t distract reads of charts with non-essential decorations.

(Summary: 120 words)

 6.

Yau, Nathan. Data Points: Visualization That Means Something. Indianapolis, IN: John Wiley & Sons, 2013. Print.

Author Background:

 Summary:

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 7.

Cook, Gareth, and Robert Krulwich. The Best American Infographics 2016. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016. Print.

Author Background:

ROBERT KRULWICH is the cohost of Radiolab and a science correspondent for NPR. He writes, draws, and cartoons at Curiously Krulwich, where he synthesizes scientific concepts into colorful, one-of-a-kind blog posts. He has won several Emmy awards for his work on television, and has been called “the most inventive network reporter in television” by TV Guide.

Gareth Cook is a Pulitzer Prize-winning magazine journalist, a contributor to NewYorker.com, and the editor of a forthcoming book series, The Best American Infographics. His work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, NewYorker.com, Wired, Scientific American, the Washington Monthly, the Boston Globe Ideas section and elsewhere. He is also editor of Scientific American’s Mind Matters neuroscience blog.

 Summary:

This book is a collect of the year’s best infographics. Some of my favorites are:

How the parties came apart – This is a visual that shows how republicans and democrats vote. It highlights if they cross party lines.

Nicholas Felton’s Annual Reports – Feltron uses the best fonts and has great hierarchy in his visuals.  

The human toll of world war II – It is eerie to see how many lost their lives during World War II.

How to hack science – This interactive graphic shows how you can manipulate date to make it statistically significant.

What’s really warming the world – With this interactive graphic the user can select different possibilities that overlay with the warming temperature of the earth. It shows that greenhouse gasses are the true cause. Suck it deniers.

(Summary: 129 words)

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Annotated Bibliography

http://www.easybib.com

  1.

Tufte, Edward R. Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Cheshire, CT: Graphics, 2000. Print.

Author Background:

Edward Tufte was a professor at Yale University who taught political science, statistics and computer science. He is best known for his books on information design.

 Summary:

Visual Explanations is Tufte’s third book on information design. It has been described as a work that centers on dynamic data, or information that changes over time. The book covers many topics including how to stop a cholera epidemic in London during 1854 and whether the NASA charts could have been improved so that the space shuttle Challenger disaster would have been avoided. There is a chapter devoted to showing how magic tricks are preformed because these tricks take visual steps to display how the illusion is performed. The book introduces the theory of “the smallest effective difference” which is the best way to make visual distinctions is to make them as subtle as possible but still clear and effective.

(Summary: 120 words)

 2.

Murgio, Matthew P. Communications Graphics. New York: Van Nostrand, 1969. Print.

Author Background:

?

 Summary:

This book is mostly about charting data but it does a great job in introducing use to data design and visual information. It begins by exploring how we learn. Site becomes the primary sense we use to teach and learn. It goes on to explain that people remember what they see and hear. The book explains the core reasons to chart data are to amplify and reinforce written or verbal text. It touches on reasons to not chart and to chart data. There is an extensive section on the types of charts and what situations call for using which charts. Scale is important in showing change within a graphic. The pictorial charting section is probably the best chapter to explore with your eyes. It is littered with pictograms, maps, flow charts, process charts, and org charts.

(Summary: 136 words)

 3.

Wildbur, Peter, and Michael Burke. Information Graphics: Innovative Solutions in Contemporary Design. London: Thames & Hudson, 1998. Print.

Author Background:

Peter Wildbur is an author of a couple of design books - Information Graphics: A Survey of Typographic, Diagramatic and Cartographic Communication & International Trademark Design.

Michael Burke was a professor of graphic design the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Schwäbish Gmünd, one of Germany's leading design schools.

 Summary:

An interesting part of this book is the look to the future of information design. It talks about how users of public transportation will have the same amount of data presented to them as airplane travelers do. This has already happened because of smart phones and GPS tracking of vehicles. Also, advances in car navigation and heads-up displays on windshields will help identify important navigation and informational data. Imagine sitting in an airplane and you can watch what the pilots are seeing. But the geography is labeled. There is a LEGO assembly manual that showcases 3D designs that help show how to put together a vehicle. It is a great example of information design.

(Summary: 114 words)

 4.

McCandless, David. Knowledge Is Beautiful. New York: Harper Design, 2014. Print.

Author Background:

David is a British data-journalist and information designer.

“David McCandless is an award-winning writer, journalist, and copywriter. He has written for The Guardian, the Independent, Maxim, Stuff, and Wired; and has won two Webby awards.” –Amazon

 Summary:

This book has an introduction and that is the only part that is written text. Everything else is a graphic. It is an amazing book for inspiration and visual examples to prove a point within a discussion about data design. I am including it here for image references.

(Summary: 48 words)