I recently attended Edward Tufte‘s Cincinnati lecture on Presenting Data & Information and interviewed him for VizWorld. The post and audio interview are available here.
Who is Edward Tufte? In the immortal analogy of @polarisdotca, “Tufte : graphics :: Feynman : physics :: Gretzky : hockey.” Recommended by computer science and art professors alike, the dog-eared works of Tufte have graced my bookshelves ever since I was a wee computational sciences graduate student.
That reminds me to frame and hang up the print of this amazing infographic created by Charles Joseph Minard in 1812. I love it when history and the principles of good information design come together to tell a compelling story.
Information is beautiful, the negative logarithm of entropy.
http://pruned.blogspot.com/2009/09/transgenic-storms.html