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Edward Tufte. Edward Tufte is a statistician and artist, and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University. He wrote, designed, and self-published 4 classic books on data visualization. The New York Times described ET as the "Leonardo da Vinci of data," and Business Week as the "Galileo of graphics. " He is now writing a book/film The Thinking Eye and constructing a 234-acre tree farm and sculpture park in northwest Connecticut, which will show his artworks and remain open space in perpetuity. He founded Graphics Press, ET Modern gallery/studio, and Hogpen Hill Farms LLC. Visual Display of Quantitative Information 200 pages Envisioning Information 128 pages Visual Explanations 160 pages Beautiful Evidence 214 pages Same paper and printing as in original clothbound editions. All 4 clothbound books, autographed by author $150 Available directly from Graphics Press.

Die visuelle Darstellung quantitativer Informationen, (200 Seiten), $12 数量情報の視覚的表示, (200 ページ)、$12. Welcome To Contagious. FlowingData. Visual Complexity.

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Visual Info Sites. Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, concepts, subjects - v. Edward Tufte. Information Is Beautiful | Ideas, issues, concepts, subjects - v. Unnamed collection. Information aesthetics. Social Media Search Tool | WhosTalkin? Four Steps to Social Media Marketing Success - Search Engine Wat. Whether you're a business or an individual, you must wrestle with many complex issues for social media.

These can often be overwhelming. Where to even begin? Rather than be paralyzed, it's often best to understand that there are four simple, yet critical, steps to social media: It's easiest to think of it as a stairway, and the diagram is laid out as such. If you learn anything from this column, it's that you need to take that first step. It's also the most important one. Listen to your customer and conversations around your brand. Companies often enter the social media fray and jump straight to step four, selling.

You need to start with step one, which is listening. Notice in the diagram that the steps for the customer than happen in the reverse order of the company. If it makes it easier to grasp, you can consider these steps 5, 6, 7, 8. Listen: The customer buys the product service from the selling company. That's the beauty of social media.