Problem statements  Truthful reports  Explaining cause and effect is highest form of knowledge  Nonfiction reports and presentations: fundamentals  Show information that is relevant, credible, honest  No cherry-picking, no lemon-dropping, no confirmation bias  Context and comparisons essential  Presenters and their audience  Efficiency in communication  Credibility and truth in presentations: the necessity of skepticism  High quality measurement and research design are a necessity for truth and presenter credibility  Effectiveness of approximate measurements and models  Real-time 2D/3D images and data analysis heart surgery; exemplary interface for data visualization, machine learning, imaging  Case study: authentic representation of data and uncertainties in real science  Data and measurements: audits and detective work essential  Survival bias  Signal and noise  Color scales as signal and noise  Pitching and hyping corrupts signal  Poshlust = pretentious banality  20 case studies  Apple decision meetings  Amazon and AWS meetings begin with 30 minute silent reading of a 6-page document (ET invention): the key goal is to seek the truth, ideas not presenters matter most  News story: Why is the Potomac so dangerous?  Doctor patient communication  Important decisions in senior faculty meetings  Teaching is not reading slides aloud to students  Remodeling teaching  Engineering by PowerPoint: Columbia shuttle accident, close readings reveal problems with evidence and conclusions

COURSE REVIEWS FOR FIRST COURSE

"Best single-day class ever." TaoSecurity "The da Vinci of data." THE NEW YORK TIMES

"In university halls and conference centers, Tufte's appeal crackles. Fans spend the day looking at art and information through Tufte's eyes, as he walks them through images and analysis of his books. In 4 books and popular auditorium gigs, he teaches by visual example. Next to a bad example of a graph, he positions a sublimely clear treatment, often using the same data. Tufte's work is relevant to anyone who needs to write or present information clearly, from business executives to students. About 10 years ago, The New York Times crowned Tufte the "da Vinci of data." A more fitting title might be the "Galileo of graphics." Where da Vinci is remembered as an inventor of new technologies, Galileo put right our understanding of the solar system by positioning the sun at its center. Tufte, who owns a handful of nearly 400-year-old first editions by Galileo considers the early scientist a master of analytical design." BLOOMBERG

"The Information Sage: Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data." Edward Tufte's many government data presentations in Washington, DC, including his presidential appointment to the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel and work on recovery.org."" The Washington Monthly

"One visionary day. Few speak as eloquently as Edward Tufte, whose theories of information design not only illuminate, they inspire. In a full-day seminar, Tufte, author of the classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, uses maps, graphs, charts, and tables to communicate what prose alone cannot. For information designers Tufte's work is a model of clarity and craftsmanship. Given that the heart of his enterprise is statistics (of which he's a professor at Yale), one might worry about "lognormal distributions" and "trimetric projections." This would be a mistake. Tufte keeps jargon to a minimum. His insights lead to new levels of understanding both for creators and viewers of visual display. What makes Tufte most persuasive are his works themselves: His books and his seminar embody his belief that "good design is clear thinking made visible." WIRED

"Ivy League Rock and Roll: Edward Tufte, the world's most renowned visualization expert, holds legendary information design courses. I recently was among the hundreds that flock to each of his live performances. What an experience! Tufte's seminars are legendary. Anyone who deals with data and visualization on a professional level knows his books. Today in Washington's Crystal Forum many participants come from government agencies and military institutions. There are also several students whose majors range from information technology and graphic design to economics, biology and medicine. Some, balancing notebooks on their laps, will take detailed notes so that they can fully absorb Tufte's messages later at home. He gently takes an awe-striking original from Galileo Galilei or a centuries-old copy of Euclid's scripts and proceeds to carry it down the aisle. Later, one of his assistants will also walk through the auditorium with one of these precious books in hand." Nicolas Bissantz

"Go to Edward Tufte workshop. A rite of passage for every designer." Jared Spool

"Edward Tufte wants you to see better" NPR

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