Questions from Tufte readings

Questions from Edward Tufte’s The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Chapter 4—Data-Ink and Graphical Redesign

1.     How, if at all, can the discussion of bilateral symmetry of data and its relation to redundancy be applied to a non-symmetrical object (e.g., a carved jack-o-lantern)? (97)

Chapter 5—Cartjunk: Vibrations, Grids, and Ducks

2.     The reading discusses moiré vibration as “bad art” and “bad data graphics.” Is there any way that the moiré vibration could be used to strengthen a chart or an image or is it a hindrance only? (108)

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

Chapter 2—Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions

3.     If a good method is partially defined by a timely problem, how is the passage of time within the project a poor explanatory variable? (29)

4.     How did Snow’s work move this far, and be validated, if it embodies such large uncertainty in the evidence (the removal of the handle of the pump)? (33)