ET Modern, my new museum/gallery, 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. Fifty sculptures and prints are exhibited, including recent works. ET gives artist tours on most Saturdays. 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 on 3 separate days at ET Modern: Sunday March 4; Monday March 5; and Tuesday March 6. See below for course information and registration. Interview, Advertising Age. Four video interviews, Washington Post, on government transparency, analytical thinking, recognizing excellence, and a sense of the relevant. Long article in Washington Monthly about ET in Washington. Edward Tufte Presidential appointment announced by White House NYTimes, Business Week, Newsweek, Washington Post 1, 2, NPR

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

San Diego, CA	Feb 6, 2012
Los Angeles, CA	Feb 7, 2012 Feb 8, 2012
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New York, NY	March 4, 2012 March 5, 2012 Full March 6, 2012
Boston, MA	March 21, 2012 March 22, 2012 March 23, 2012

Paris1907, forging, 2011 Sculptures in the October storm Philosophical Diamond Signs Ace and Porta do multimedia Millstone sculpture, 1-8 Masks Quartet, casting, 2011 Artful Feynman Diagrams Larkin's Twig Bouquet sculptures Stainless steel engravings 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 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 Seeing Around: new ET essay 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

Sparkline theory and practice Sparkline > Steve Jobs > Andy Warhol in Google results Slopegraphs for comparing gradients: Slopegraph theory and practice Philosophical Diamond Signs ET book, free PDF: Data Analysis for Policy PowerPoint does rocket science + better techniques for technical reports Lousy PowerPoint: Fault of PP users? Wavefields: HD video data-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 Artful Feynman Diagrams Cancer survival rates: tables, graphs Feynman-Tufte principle 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 Megan Jaegerman's brilliant news graphics Geese taking flight (300 frames/second) 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 Project management (Gantt) graphics Jakob Nielsen's review of amazon's Fire Moderating forums: what's smart, not new Pioneer space plaque Corrupt presentation techniques 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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