Comments on: Beautiful Evidence http://thingelstad.com/beautiful-evidence/ Jamie Thingelstad's personal blog Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:44:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ira http://thingelstad.com/beautiful-evidence/#comment-985 Ira Thu, 13 Mar 2008 17:47:08 +0000 http://www.thingelstad.com/2008/03/beautiful-evidence/#comment-985 It's OK to "rag" on Tufte. Anyone, so utterly self-impressed, should be taken to task for a sub-par effort. Especially when I'm dropping $50 (or was it $60?) on it. Tufte has his moments, and there are chapters in my copies of his books that have seen quite a bit of wear, but some of his stuff seems to exist only to make all of the books about the same thickness on the shelf. (I liked the sparklines section too.) It’s OK to “rag” on Tufte. Anyone, so utterly self-impressed, should be taken to task for a sub-par effort. Especially when I’m dropping $50 (or was it $60?) on it.

Tufte has his moments, and there are chapters in my copies of his books that have seen quite a bit of wear, but some of his stuff seems to exist only to make all of the books about the same thickness on the shelf.

(I liked the sparklines section too.)

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