ET Modern | Hogpen Hill farms: ET’s landscape sculpture park

Hogpen Hill Farms is a 234-acre tree farm + landscape sculpture park with 100 ET artworks in Litchfield County in northwest Connecticut.

The sculpture park is open to the public on many Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays in the spring, early summer and fall. Click here for ticketing information. (Please do not come on days when the park is closed. There is no access, the gates are closed.)

“It is wild, whimsical, grand and incredibly beautiful, with sculptures ranging from stainless steel surfaces reflecting every nuance of light, to lacy stone walls and silent boulder megaliths.” Michele McDonald, Boston Globe

“North America’s best sculpture park: Edward Tufte’s Hogpen Hill Farms” Philip Greenspun

“Each of the works transforms the landscape, see these amazing artworks up close.” Atlas Obscura

Analyzing/Presenting Data/Information: An Online Video Course Taught by Edward Tufte

The online video course is available for purchase.

Topics covered in this one-day online course include:

Fundamental data analysis/design strategies: diagrams, data visualizations, maps, images, text, tables, videos, small multiples, sparklines, medical interfaces, sentences and paragraphs. Future of information displays: 4K, 6K video-maps and stop-action moving in time.

Practical real examples: medicine, business and finance, NASA, medical research, science and engineering, and a 40-page chapter from Seeing with Fresh Eyes on data analysis when the truth matters.

How to make meetings smarter and shorter – teaching, very large meetings, medical appointments, hearings, small groups making decisions. How to improve both the content and credibility of presentations.

Spectatorship: How to be a smart consumer of presentations, assessing their credibility and content.

328,000 people from 1994 to 2020 attended continuously changing live versions of the ET course Presenting Data and Information. But now we have an online course video. This course can be viewed anytime, and students receive all 5 ET books in advance by mail – for study hall and reading during the course. The online video is closely keyed to the books, with short reading throughout the course.

Edward Tufte teaches the entire course.

Each student receives all five 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.” Bloomberg
“Tufte one-day course best ever” taosecurity
“Edward Tufte: Triumph of Good Design” New York
“Master statistician weaves Google images into visual quilts.” The Verge
“The thinking eye” NPR Science Friday on current work
“The Information Sage” Washington Monthly Tufte presidential appointment
“Curious misfits: Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Edward Tufte, Aaron Swartz” Slate

Edward Tufte is a statistician and artist, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University. He wrote, designed, and self-published 5 classic books on data visualization. The New York Times described ET as the “Leonardo da Vinci of data,” and Bloomberg as the “Galileo of graphics.” He has completed his newest book Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth, and is constructing a 234-acre tree farm and sculpture park in northwest Connecticut, which will show his artworks and remain open space in perpetuity. He founded Graphics Press, ET Modern Gallery/Studio, and Hogpen Hill Farms.