Science and art have in common intense seeing, the wide-eyed observing that generates empirical information.
I am certainly not an intellectual relativist, nor a moral relativist.
I was writing a chapter of Beautiful Evidence on the subject of the sculptural pedestal, which led to my thinking about what's up on the pedestal - the great leader.
The goal is to provide analytical tools that will last students a lifetime
What gets left out is the narrative between the bullets, which would tell us who's going to do what and how we're going to achieve the generic goals on the list.
A curious consequence is that I have become a minor celebrity.
The idea of trying to create things that last-forever knowledge-has guided my work for a long time now.
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading edge in beauty is in high art.
My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.
Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.
Public discussions are part of what it takes to make changes in the trillions of graphics published each year.
My father worked for governments all his life as an engineer and public works director.
Allowing artist-illustrators to control the design and content of statistical graphics is almost like allowing typographers to control the content, style, and editing of prose.
If you like overheads, you'll love PowerPoint.
I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
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