ET Modern, a museum/gallery of Edward Tufte's sculptures and prints, 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. ET gives artist tours on most Saturdays, including this Saturday February 18. Just mention to the gallery manager that you would like an artist tour. On Saturday February 25 at 2.00pm the amazing master stone artist Dan Snow will give a talk, "Stone and Art in Nature" followed at 3.00pm by Edward Tufte's open forum answering questions about analytical design, art, the creative process, and public service. Free events, ET Modern. Edward Tufte's one-day course, "Presenting Data and Information," will be offered at ET Modern on Sunday March 25; and Monday March 26; and Tuesday March 27. (The March 4, 5, 6 courses are almost filled.) See below for course information and registration. BBC News video, Data scientist carves out life as sculptor. 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

New York, NY	March 4, 2012 March 5, 2012 Full March 6, 2012 Full
Boston, MA	March 21, 2012 March 22, 2012 March 23, 2012
New York, NY	March 25, 2012 March 26, 2012 March 27, 2012
Atlanta	April 20, 2012
Austin	April 23, 2012
Houston	April 25, 2012

Larkin's Twig Paris1907, forging, 2011 Bouquet sculptures Philosophical Diamond Signs Millstone sculpture, 1-8 Stainless steel engravings Seeing Around: new ET essay Ace and Porta do multimedia 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 Pioneer space plaque 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 Wavefields: HD video data-graphics Book design: advice and examples Bird Series Towers sculpture Art Theorists Speak Out Cartoonishly Dear Leader sculpture Dappled light Frank Gehry's ever-changing light Elegant water drainage methods: Levi Plaza in San Francisco and elsewhere Edge Fluting

Megan Jaegerman's brilliant news graphics Sparkline theory and practice Slopegraphs for comparing gradients: Slopegraph theory and practice Wavefields: HD video data-graphics Project management (Gantt) graphics PowerPoint does rocket science + better techniques for technical reports Lousy PowerPoint: Fault of PP users? 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 Feynman-Tufte principle Advice for effective analytical reasoning iPhone interface design Philosophical Diamond Signs Analytical design and human factors Presentation Metaphors: Conway's Law Artful Feynman Diagrams 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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