Tactics of Graphic Design: A Review of Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Iver H. Iversen

doi:10.1901/jeab.1988.49-171

Tactics of Graphic Design: A Review of Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

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Abstract

For many scientists, statistics and mathematics have become the ultimate authorities on the significance and universality of scientific statements. Most scientific journals, therefore, demand that authors adhere to strict rules of data treatment in satisfying the requirements of statistical significance. Yet both mathematics and statistics are changing disciplines. Of late, some basic views in the world of mathematics and statistics have changed, leading to some new and rather innovative techniques that might be useful for behavior analysts.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	171-189
Number of pages	18
Journal	Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Volume	49
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1988.49-171
State	Published - Jan 1 1988

Keywords

Graphic Design
E.R. Tufte
Visual Information
Quantitative methods
Quantitative data
mathematics
visual displays

Disciplines

Graphic Design
Mathematics
Applied Mathematics
Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering

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