Edward Tufte has been described by The New York Times as the "Leonardo da Vinci of Data." Since 1993, thousands have attended his daylong seminars... Edward Tufte, Offering 'Beautiful Evidence' Edward ...

From the Washington Monthly article “The Information Sage: Meet Edward Tufte, The Graphics Guru to the Power Elite Who Is Revolutionizing How We See Data”: “Edward Tufte occupies a revered and ...

This week’s New York piece by Christopher Bonanos, “The Minister of Information,” was the most unlikely spellbinder we’ve seen in our magazine in quite some time. Three big pages on a semi-obscure ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Late last week, President Barack Obama announced that he would be ...

Edward Tufte is a data viz pioneer, well-known for making complex information easy to parse. But the man is also fascinated with manipulating the physical world; he has transformed the rolling hills ...

Government and industry bureaucrats addicted to spewing out mind-numbing PowerPoint presentations, be very afraid; Edward Tufte is coming to Washington, DC. The Obama administration has appointed ...

Among architects, and just about anyone else with a visual sensibility, Edward Tufte is a legendary figure thanks in part to his self-published books, particularly The Visual Display of Quantitative ...

Long called the Galileo of graphics, Edward Tufte is on the lecture circuit again (seems to happen eachspring and run through the summer). He's the iconoclast of analytical design -- inevitably, he ...

Edward Tufte is most likely the world’s only graphic designer with roadies. “We own two of everything—amplifiers, digital projectors,” other A/V gear, he says. “One set moves up and down the West ...

Edward Tufte has a big backyard that stretches for hundreds of acres near Cheshire, Conn. Over the years, he's filled that space with giant metal sculptures as big as the trees. "I think it was ...

At the end of his freshman year at Princeton, 42 years ago, Tim Ramis sought entry into an upper-division class titled, "Quantitative Analysis in Policy and Politics." In the ensuing interview, Ramis ...

Edward Tufte is the guy who summed up the field of information design in one amazing book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. He’s also a sculptor, and last year conceived this behemoth ...