Minard Translations

The Life of Charles Joseph Minard (1781 - 1870)
Charles Joseph Minard, "Graphic Tables and Figurative Maps"
Charles Joseph Minard, "Statistics"
Minard's data sources for Napoleon's March
Minard's map (and data sources) for Hannibal's war

Classics

Stephen J. Gould, "The Median Isn't the Message"
Austin Bradford Hill on causality
Frederick Mosteller, "Classroom and Platform Performance"
John W. Tukey, "Some Graphic and Semigraphic Displays"

Graphic of the Day

A Single-Number Semi-Table, New York Times, March 20, 2003, D1
Computer and Human Chess Masters, The New York Times, January 21, 2003
Data in sentences - Women and Smoking, Supplement to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Women and Smoking:
    A Report of the Surgeon General. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report August 30, 2002, 2-8
Long-term survival rates of cancer patients achieved by the end of the 20th century, The Lancet, 360, October 12, 2002, 1131-1135
Cubism in medieval French planning and zoning? Sotheby's Preview, April 2002
Crash Diet Potomania, The Lancet, March 16, 2002
Google Logo on Mondrian's Birthday, March 11, 2002
Princeton University Acceptance Letter, Chance, Winter 2002
Enron Follies, New York Times, February 6, 2002
Planets Outside the Solar System, Sky & Telescope, March 2002
Road and Exit Numbering, The New York Times, February 10, 2002

ET Reviews Some Books

William Loy, Stuart Allen, Aileen R. Buckley and James E. Meacham, The Atlas of Oregon
M.G.J. Minnaert, Light and Color in the Outdoors
Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream
David Hockney, Secret Knowledge: Rediscovering the Lost Techniques of the Old Masters
Robert Flynn Johnson and Donna Stein, Artists' Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000
Ken Garland, Mr. Beck's Underground Map
Eduard Imhof, Cartographic Relief Presentation
Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century

Recent Landscape Art

Articles about ET work

Christopher Bonanos, "The Minister of Information," New York Magazine, June 18, 2007, 125-127
Fran Smith, "Intelligent Designs," Stanford Magazine, March/April 2007, 54-60
Mark Zachry, Charlotte Thralls - Utah State University, "An Interview with Edward R. Tufte,"
    Technical Communication Quarterly 2004, Vol. 13, No. 4, 447-462
Michael Shermer, "The Feynman - Tufte Principle," Scientific American, April 2005
Paul May, "Why I love...Edward Tufte", The Guardian, November 8, 2004
"AIGA Medalist: Edward Tufte", American Institute of Graphic Arts, 2004
Clive Thompson, "Powerpoint Makes You Dumb", The New York Times Magazine, December 2003, 88-89
Dan Nadel, "Ten Questions for Edward Tufte", ID Magazine, November 2003
Report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, "Engineering by Viewgraphs", 191, August 2003
Excerpt from William Langewiesche, "Columbia's Last Flight", The Atlantic Monthly (November 2003), 82-84
John Schwartz, "The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide", The New York Times, September 28, 2003
John Schwartz, "Shuttle Inquiry Uncovers Flaws in Communication", The New York Times, August 14, 2003
Jimmy Guterman, "Unplug That Projector!", Business 2.0, May 15, 2003
Tom Morton, "Vital Statistics",  frieze.com, December 2002
Oh yes! "Distinguished Recipients of Honorary Degrees from Conceptual Art University"
Christopher Reynolds, "Onward means going upward", Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2002
Oh no! "The 50 Top Business Gurus",Outlook 2003, volume XV, number 1
"Williams College to Honor Eight Renowned Scientists", September 23, 2001
Kristi Cameron, "3-D Tufte", Metropolis, February 2001
"Lifeline: Edward Tufte", The Lancet, November 11, 2000
David Corcoran, "Campaigning for the Charts that Teach", The New York Times, February 2000
Alan Bisbort, "Escaping Flatland", Hartford Advocate, October 1999
Alan Bisbort, "Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning", Connecticut Magazine, March 1999
Peter Meyers, "One Visionary Day", Wired Magazine, January 1999
James Surowiecki, "Sermon on the Mountain", Metropolis, January 1999
Michael H. Martin, "The Man Who Makes Sense of Numbers", Fortune Magazine, October 27, 1997
Cullen Murphy, "How to delight with Statistics", Slate, May 22, 1997
Scott Rosenberg, "The Data Artist", Salon, March 1997
Don Doernberg, Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview, 1994-1997
This Week's Citation Classic, "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information",Current Contents, December, 1992
Phil Patton, "Up from Flatland", New York Times Magazine, January 19, 1992
Jeffrey Mervis, "Congress Presses Probe Into NSF Prediction Of Scientist Shortage", The Scientist, October 1991
"Best of category, graphic design", Annual Design Review, ID International Design, 1991
This Week's Citation Classic, "Political Control of the Economy",Current Contents, February 8, 1988
"Determinants of the Outcomes of Midterm Congressional Elections," APSR, 69 (September 1975), 812-826
"The Relationship Between Seats and Votes in Two-Party Systems," APSR, 67 (June 1973), 540-554