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Minister of Information
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 | , , | No Comments
New York Magazine has a good profile of Dr. Edward Tufte. If you are not familiar with his work, you should be. Dr. Tufte is an expert and pioneer in the field of visual communication of information and this is a nice introduction to read before you buy your copies of his fantastic books.
He keeps going on the road, selling steadily, a few gigs a month, year after year. That may be why there are 1.4 million copies of his titles in print—a staggering figure for self-publishing. (The top seller, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, has been a reliable mover since 1983.) And at these six-and-a-half-hour presentations, the audience starts cheering when he hits the floor, clamors for their books to be signed, buys posters at the table out front. As soon as the applause stops, Tufte bolts backstage, enthusiastically draining a Corona.