{"id":1590,"date":"2016-02-18T00:25:10","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2016-02-18T00:25:10","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:25:10","slug":"edward-tufte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anychart.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/18\/edward-tufte\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Tufte in San Francisco (meets AnyChart)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Edward Tufte one-day course in San Francisco<\/em><\/h2>\n

Edward Tufte, which was once called “The Leonardo da Vinci of data”, is a statistician and artist, a professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University, and an author of 4 classic books on data visualization. In December 2015, Mr. Tufte read his one-day course in data visualization (Presenting Data and Information<\/a>) in San Francisco. We were there and enjoyed it a lot! See our short report about this event, along with some photos we took during the lecture.<\/p>\n

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In this picture Edward Tufte shows a most remarkable book – Euclid’s Geometry (1570) with pop-up 3D models:<\/p>\n

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And here is an image of Russian army command center, which was used by Mr. Tufte to express his disapproval of 3D Pie charts. He said that a country that uses 3D Pie charts in its’ command center will lose any war. However, we believe that, if used properly, 3D Charts can be a decent tool for data visualization – that is why we have added them in AnyChart JavaScript Charts Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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After the lecture, we were lucky to get our books signed by the author and talk to him. Mr. Tufte remembered us because AnyChart implemented Sparkline Charts<\/a> – a type of charts he invented. He suggested that we use AnyChart to create some of the challenging data visualizations mentioned in his books. Challenge accepted, coming soon!<\/p>\n

Our short but intensive conversation with Mr. Tufte was followed by discussing Sparklines in Twitter<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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@EdwardTufte<\/a> Thank you for very interesting day-a lot to think about! You've asked about our sparklines – https:\/\/t.co\/G0VwY308NZ<\/a> Thank you!<\/p>\n

— AnyChart (@AnyChart) December 17, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n