Visual explanations: Images and quantities, evidence and narrative

✍ Scribed by Skovira, Robert J.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 41 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0002-8231
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4571(19980501)49:6<574::aid-asi14>3.0.co;2-h

✦ Synopsis

focus the more humanistic approaches to information studies Visual distinctions are to be unambiguous but simple. Difference is a mode of showing quantification. Difference is a matter under a new banner. of importance. The ability to show distinctions reflects a clear conception of the problem at hand. Tufte picks John Snow's explanation of the 1854 London Terrence A. Brooks cholera outbreak whereby Snow used a map of London showing Graduate School of Library and Information Science the location of the public water pumps in relation to the number University of Washington of reported deaths in proximity to the pumps. Snow was ex-Box 352930

pressing his idea about how cholera spread through the public Seattle, WA 98195-2930 water system. Part of the map showed all those water pumps E-mail: tabrooks