Creatalytics by Matthew Burgess

Data visualization super star Edward Tufte has been called upon by the Obama administration to join the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.

Tufte is known for a series of book on graphic design, particularly when it comes to the visualization of data. I went to a full day seminar of his in 1996, and became baptized in the Church of Tufte. I left with a armful of gorgeous hard cover books, smitten for data viz. I still pull The Visual Display of Quantitative Information down off the shelf regularly to consult and inspire.

His task for the administration is to track the many individual projects of the 2009 stimulus package, and determine how to best represent their progress on Recovery.gov.

Forbes.com recently ran an interview of him. Take a look.

Forbes.com – Obama’s Data Visionary

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