Reporters, interview requests, invitations: contact Pam Mozier at 203 250-7007 or email
(Prior to interviews, reporters should read the piece by Zachary and Thralls below.)

For design reviews or comments on your work: Search the topics on ET notebooks, find a relevant topic,
read the thread, post your best material by going to the contribution button at the bottom of each thread.
If your contribution is published, it will be available for possible public comment by ET and by visitors
to that thread. (For good ideas about your displays, also search Google Images for your topic.)

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ET interviews, news reports

Rick Harrison "Down on the Art Farm" The Sunday Republican, January 15, 2015

Aaron Souppouris "Master statistician weaves Google images into visual quilts" The Verge, November 2013

Clive Cookson "Edward Tufte" Financial Times July 2013

Geeta Dayal "Phreaks and Geeks" Slate, February 2013 (Sometimes curious misfits turn out to be Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak,
Edward Tufte—or Aaron Swartz)

Flora Lichtman "Edward Tufte Wants You to See Better" NPR Science Friday, January 2013

Maitri Erwin Edward Tufte Interview VizWorld, December 2012

Irina Khokhlova "Data scientist carves out new life as sculptor" BBC News, February 2012

Matt Carmichael "Edward Tufte: The AdAgeStat Q&A" Advertising Age, November 2011

Four ET videos; Washington Post, June 2011:
Government transparency, Analytical thinking, Recognizing excellence and A sense of the relevant.

Steve Duin "The master of graphics and design" The Oregonian, June 2011

Joshua Yaffa "The Information Sage" Washington Monthly, June 2011 (Washington work and influences on data displays.)

Christopher Bonanos "The Minister of Information" New York Magazine.
(A long account of one-day course and generous speculations about ET influence. Well-illustrated in downlinks.)

Mark Zachry and Charlotte Thralls "An Interview with Edward R. Tufte" Technical Communication Quarterly.
(16-page, thorough, revealing interview in question and answer format.)

Maitri Erwin An Interview with Edward Tufte Vizworld (Recent thoughts on visualization.)

Jimmy Guterman "How Facts Change Everything (If You Let Them)" MIT Sloan Management Review

Fran Smith "Intelligent Designs" Stanford Magazine. (Lots of pictures, detailed account of data work and sculpture.)

Michael Shermer "The Feynman - Tufte Principle" Scientific American. (A day with Richard Feynman's Feynman-diagram van.)

Michael H. Martin "The Man Who Makes Sense of Numbers" Fortune Magazine (Discusses Bose consulting and data displays.)

Cullen Murphy "How to delight with Statistics" Slate

Scott Rosenberg "The Data Artist" Salon

ET Presidential appointment

Noam Cohen "Take $787 Billion. Now Show Where It's Going" New York Times

Bruce Nussbaum "President Obama Appoints Edward Tufte - Big Victory for Data Visualization and Transparent Government"
Bloomberg Businessweek

Andrew Romano "How Master Information Designer Edward Tufte Can Help Obama Govern" Newsweek

Ed O'Keefe "Obama taps infographics guru for stimulus board" Washington Post

Erza Klein "A historic day for anyone who cares about charts and graphs"Washington Post

Bob Garfield "Minister of Information" NPR

Reviews of ET art exhibits

Scott Simon "The Many Faces (And Sculptures) Of Edward Tufte" NPR

Susan Hodara "A Master of Two Dimensions, Plus One" New York Times

Benjamin Genocchio "Science and Art, Melded in Sculpture" New York Times

Marx Dorrity "Rocket Science" Chronogram

Josh Margan "Tufte Continues To Dazzle With Larger Than Life Works" Cheshire Herald

Christopher Reynolds "Onward means going upward" Los Angeles Times

Lyra Kilston "Edward Tufte at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum" Modern Painters

Diane Dewey "Aldrich Museum Features Edward Tufte Sculpture Exhibit" Artes Magazine

Patricia Rosoff "Aldrich Museum Features Edward Tufte Sculpture Exhibit" Sculpture

Alan Bisbort "Seeing Around with Tufte" Waterbury Republican-American

Patricia Rosoff "Edward Tufte: Seeing Around" Art New England

Mark Lynch "Seeing Around at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum" NPR

ET interviews, news reports

Adam Aston "Tufte's Invisible Yet Ubiquitous Influence" Bloomberg Businessweek

Phil Patton "Up from Flatland" New York Times Magazine
(Long profile on ET supercomputer visualization work for the thunderstorm as well as career up to 1992.)

Paul May "Why I love...Edward Tufte" The Guardian

"AIGA Medalist: Edward Tufte" American Institute of Graphic Arts

Clive Thompson "Powerpoint Makes You Dumb" The New York Times Magazine

Dan Nadel "Ten Questions for Edward Tufte" ID Magazine

Report of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board "Engineering by Viewgraphs" 191

Excerpt from William Langewiesche "Columbia's Last Flight" The Atlantic Monthly

John Schwartz "The Level of Discourse Continues to Slide" The New York Times

John Schwartz "Shuttle Inquiry Uncovers Flaws in Communication" The New York Times

Jimmy Guterman "Unplug That Projector!" Business 2.0

Tom Morton "Vital Statistics"  frieze.com

Oh yes! "Distinguished Recipients of Honorary Degrees from Conceptual Art University"

Oh no! "The 50 Top Business Gurus"Outlook

"Williams College to Honor Eight Renowned Scientists"

Kristi Cameron "3-D Tufte" Metropolis

"Lifeline: Edward Tufte" The Lancet

David Corcoran "Campaigning for the Charts that Teach" New York Times

Alan Bisbort "Escaping Flatland" Hartford Advocate

Alan Bisbort "Edward R. Tufte, Envisioning" Connecticut Magazine

Peter Meyers "One Visionary Day" Wired Magazine

James Surowiecki "Sermon on the Mountain" Metropolis

Don Doernberg Computer Literacy Bookshops Interview

This Week's Citation Classic "The Visual Display of Quantitative Information"Current Contents

Jeffrey Mervis "Congress Presses Probe Into NSF Prediction Of Scientist Shortage" The Scientist

"Best of category, graphic design" Annual Design Review, ID International Design

This Week's Citation Classic "Political Control of the Economy"Current Contents

"Determinants of the Outcomes of Midterm Congressional Elections" American Political Science Review, 69, 812-826

"The Relationship Between Seats and Votes in Two-Party Systems" American Political Science Review, 540-554

Martin Hardee "Notes from the Sun.com team" Sun Microsystems

Seth M. Powsner and Edward R. Tufte "Summarizing Clinical Psychiatric Data" Psychiatric Services, 48, 1458-1461