a carleton college faculty workshop
dec 8, 9 and 12, 2005
"...at their best, graphics are instruments for reasoning about quantitative information. Often the most effective way to describe, explore, and summarize a set of numbers -- even a very large set -- is to look at pictures of those numbers."(Edward Tufte)
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| Numbers count! |
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When you hear “data visualization” do you think paint-by-numbers? Or, do you worry that it will require years of your life to develop expertise in a complicated, specialized software program? Well, stop worrying and start seeing numbers! Workshop leaders:Doug Foxgrover, Academic Computer Coordinator |
William S. Cleveland Edward Tufte John Tukey |