Creatalytics by Matthew Burgess » Edward Tufte http://www.creatalytics.com Data Driven Marketing and the Convergence of Creative and Analytical Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:26:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Edward Tufte Joins Obama Adminstration http://www.creatalytics.com/data-visualization/edward-tufte-joins-obama-adminstration http://www.creatalytics.com/data-visualization/edward-tufte-joins-obama-adminstration#comments Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:13:04 +0000 Matthew Burgess http://www.creatalytics.com/?p=294 edward-tufteData 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.

visual-display-of-quantitative-information-edward-tufteHis 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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