Envisioning Information

Edward R. Tufte

出版时间

1990-05-01

ISBN

9780961392116

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍
这不是一本教人做图表的工具书,而是一场关于'如何看'的训练。Tufte 把信息设计还原成一种近乎诗意的能力:在二维平面上重建三维世界的密度与层次。书中反复叩问一个核心——'1+1=3'的陷阱:当多余元素与必要信息纠缠在一起,数据就失去了诚实。读者最难忘的,正是这种对'装饰不得僭越结构'的偏执。它适合那些被冗余图表折磨、渴望重新审视身边信息呈现方式的人;也适合追求'有限制的美'的制作者。争议在于作者文笔刻意、年代久远,但其案例剖析的精确与克制,至今罕有对手。
AI导读
核心看点
  • 探索从二维平面逃逸,展示高维复杂数据的视觉呈现。
  • 提出小多重图、图层分离等原则,指导复杂信息解释。
  • 强调1+1=3的视觉效应,警惕装饰对数据展示的干扰。
读者共识
  • 信息可视化领域的经典之作,原则简洁明确且实用。
  • 案例分析深刻,能让人重新审视身边信息呈现的方式。
  • 虽出版年代较早,但理论扎实,至今仍有极高参考价值。
精彩摘录
  • "Small multiples, whether tabular or pictorial, move to the heart of visual reasoning - to see, distinguish, choose"
  • "We envision information in order to reason about, communicate, document, and preserve that knowledge-activities nearly always carried out on two-dimensional paper and computer screen. Escaping this flatland and enriching the density of data displays are the essential tasks of information design. Suc"
  • "It is all right to decorate construction but never construct decoration"
  • "1 + 1 = 3 or more, when two elements show themselves along with assorted incidental by-products of their partnership — occasionally a basis for pleasing aesthetic effects but always a continuing danger to data exhibits."
  • "We thrive in information-thick worlds because of our marvelous and everyday capacities to select, edit, single out, structure, highlight, group, pair, merge, harmonize, synthesize, focus, organize, condense, reduce, boil down, choose, categorize, catalog, classify, list, abstract, scan, look into, i"
用户评论
For infographic makers
Old-school
棒,就是作者文笔太做作了contrived,学会了有限制的美
Insanely interesting and captivating
Oh, paper work
好书,但我看个半懂不懂
好棒好棒!言简意赅,没有废话,而且drawing都选的很好!
通读第一遍
很好的一本书,而且很好读。让我意识到,啊,我所有习以为常的图表都是被人设计出来的,大家在visualization上花了如此多的精力!也给自己未来做图打了一些基础
可翻读。
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