About ET: Edward Tufte interviews, biography, contact information
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- ET Interviews / News reports
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Rick Harrison “Down on the Art Farm” The Sunday Republican, January 15, 2015
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Aaron Souppouris “Master statistician weaves Google images into visual quilts” The Verge, November 2013
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Clive Cookson “Edward Tufte” Financial Times July 2013
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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
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Maitri Erwin Edward Tufte Interview VizWorld, December 2012
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Irina Khokhlova “Data scientist carves out new life as sculptor” BBC News, February 2012
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Matt Carmichael “Edward Tufte: The AdAgeStat Q&A” Advertising Age, November 2011
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Four ET videos; Washington Post, June 2011:
Government transparency, Analytical thinking, Recognizing excellence and A sense of the relevant.
(A long account of one-day course and generous speculations about ET influence. Well-illustrated in downlinks.)
(16-page, thorough, revealing interview in question and answer format.)
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
ET interviews, news reports
Bloomberg Businessweek
(Long profile on ET supercomputer visualization work for the thunderstorm as well as career up to 1992.)
