Data Presentation

For those of you who haven't gotten on the Tufte bandwagon, or don't see why you should, here's why: As people who are presented with an ever-increasing amount of information every day, we have to find a way to make this data orderly and comparable. In my own two fields of study, psychology and public relations, this is painfully apparent. People far too often are experiencing information overload to the point where their ability to make decisions is impaired. This is big stuff. Daniel Kahneman won a Nobel Prize for his work on this subject. This is what Edward Tufte is all about. Below are two examples of his work. Data Analysis for Politics and Policy Power Point is Evil