Edward Tufte information-display pedagogy

The seminar ($500/day × 200 attendees = $100K/day), the four books on acid-free vellum, the handout pricing negotiation. Used as the source for the Napoleon's-march graph and the PowerPoint-Gettysburg satire.

In the back there is a handout from Edward Tufte. It's chapter two of one of his books. He has four books. Remember he's a professor at Yale, but he started getting interested in how to display information. For example, this he considers the best graph ever made. If you take his one-day seminar, I think it's five hundred dollars, they'll be very — oh yeah you have to understand it — but I won't spend a second with it. He basically looks at lots of different ways to graph things, and sometimes you can graph things and actually have no value whatsoever to your graph or your table, and sometimes you can have all kinds of information and put it in one thing.