ET Modern, a museum/gallery of Edward Tufte's artworks, is open Wednesday through Saturday, 10am to 6pm, 547 West 20th Street, corner of West 20th Street and 11th Avenue, in New York's Chelsea art district, 212 206-0300. Edward Tufte's one-day course, "Presenting Data and Information," will be offered at ET Modern on Friday June 15; Sunday June 17; and Monday June 18. See below for course information, availability, registration. ET will conduct the monthly open forum briefly presenting new artworks and then answering questions about analytical design, art, the creative process, data science, and public service on Saturday June 16 at 4.00pm. Free event, ET Modern. ET will give artist tours at 4.15pm on Friday June 15; Sunday June 17; and Monday June 18. Free events, ET Modern. BBC News video, Data scientist carves out life as sculptor. [often slow to download] Interview, Advertising Age. Four video interviews, Washington Post, on government transparency, analytical thinking, recognizing excellence, and a sense of the relevant. Edward Tufte Presidential appointment announced by White House, NYTimes, Business Week, Newsweek, Washington Post 1, 2, NPR. Long article in Washington Monthly about ET in Washington.

Edward Tufte teaches the entire course. Each student receives all four ET books on information design:

"One visionary day....the insights of this class lead to new levels of understanding both for creators and viewers of visual displays." WIRED    "The Leonardo da Vinci of data." THE NEW YORK TIMES    "The Galileo of graphics." BUSINESS WEEK

Arlington, VA	June 11, 2012 June 12, 2012 June 13, 2012
New York, NY	June 15, 2012 June 17, 2012 June 18, 2012
Denver, CO	July 20, 2012
Seattle, WA	July 23, 2012 July 24, 2012
Portland, OR	July 26, 2012

Larkin's Twig Paris1907, forging, 2011 Stainless steel engravings Philosophical Diamond Signs Ace and Porta do multimedia Millstone sculpture, 1-8 Bouquet sculptures Seeing Around: new ET essay Masks Quartet, casting, 2011 Buddha with Bird Nest: sculpture Rocket Science #1 (Spacecraft) Magritte's Smile (giant fish) Rocket Science #2 (Lunar Lander) Sculpture forgings (blacksmith work) Sheep visit landscape sculpture Tong Bird of Paradise Museo-Theater sculptures Drawing Center show: ET art Shadows Spring Arcs, landscape artwork Dogs+art: Whose hermeneutic? Beautiful Evidence chronicles Alley Art Sculptures in the October storm Geese taking flight (300 frames/second) Dog sculptures Airspaces sculpture Flame Theater Scaling and scale models Designing a museum garden Bookprints: 16 new prints Table sculptures Touchscreens have no hand Hogpen Hill #1 landscape sculpture Skewed Machine sculpture Porta and the Birds (300 frames/second) 12 reviews, ET art exhibits ZZ Smile (Zerlina's Smile) sculpture Babar's dream Cubism in medieval France zoning? Horizons, vistas, and skylines Long interview with ET Sculpture theory and practice Book design: advice and examples Bird Series Towers sculpture Art Theorists Speak Out Cartoonishly Dear Leader sculpture Frank Gehry's ever-changing light Elegant water parks Edge Fluting

Sparkline theory and practice Slopegraphs for comparing gradients: Slopegraph theory and practice Wavefields: HD video data-graphics Artful Feynman Diagrams Project management (Gantt) graphics Feynman-Tufte Principle PowerPoint does rocket science + better techniques for technical reports Lousy PowerPoint: Fault of PP users? Megan Jaegerman's brilliant news graphics Touchscreens have no hand Dashboards: decision displays London Underground maps Music Animation Machine Instructions at the point of need Mapped pictures: image annotation Lists: design theory and practice Cancer survival rates: tables, graphs Advice for effective analytical reasoning iPhone interface design Analytical design and human factors Presentation Metaphors: Conway's Law Saturn images in Galileo's text Dequantification in scientific images Geese taking flight (300 frames/second) Sparkline > Steve Jobs > Andy Warhol in Google results Links, networks, causal diagrams Microsoft CEO wants ET methods, not PowerPoint! Patient-doctor data exchange Beautiful Evidence chronicles Plagiarism in PP presentations Grand truths about human behavior Seeing Around: new ET essay Jakob Nielsen's review of amazon's Fire Moderating forums: what's smart, not new Pioneer space plaque Corrupt presentation techniques ET book, free PDF: Data Analysis for Policy The magical number 7, plus/minus 2 Feynman,"Nature cannot be fooled" Data displays for self-awareness Charles Joseph Minard (1781-1870) Sparklines: computer implementations Book design: advice and examples Dappled light Windows phone interface design Field color charts: salmon, leaf, dog . . . Airport maps and runway incursions Galileo sunspot movie (shown in ET course) Public concerts: music always too loud? Not spying on users should be a feature Horizons, vistas, and skylines Fudged photos: Mars, OJ, stem-cells . . . Minard's data sources Visual notation of bird songs Washington Post puts map in global context Single-number semi-tables for news illustrations A visit to John Snow's cholera-infected waterpump in London

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