The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

He developed a set of readings and lectures on statistical graphics, which he further developed in joint seminars he taught with renowned statistician John Tukey, a pioneer in the field of information design. In 1975, while at Princeton, Tufte was asked to teach a statistics course to a group of journalists who were visiting the school to study economics. He was then hired by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, where he taught courses in political economy and data analysis while publishing three quantitatively inclined political science books.

His dissertation, completed in 1968, was titled The Civil Rights Movement and Its Opposition. He received a BS and MS in statistics from Stanford University and a PhD in political science from Yale. He grew up in Beverly Hills, California, where his father was a longtime city official, and he graduated from Beverly Hills High School. Biography Įdward Rolf Tufte was born in 1942 in Kansas City, Missouri, to Virginia Tufte (1918–2020) and Edward E. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization. The Civil Rights Movement and Its Opposition (1968)Įdward Rolf Tufte ( / ˈ t ʌ f t i/ born March 14, 1942), sometimes known as ' ET', is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte