Prepare
Due: March 13, 2025
prepare
Learning objectives
- Identify Tufte’s principles of graphical excellence
- Introduce the data-ink ratio as a measure of chart effectiveness
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a chart’s design based on Tufte’s principles
- Redesign a common chart type to improve its data-ink ratio
- Contrast Tufte’s views with chart designs by Nigel Holmes
Preparations
📖 Read
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte - chapter 4 (Data-Ink and Graphical Redesign)
- The Budget Dollar - excerpt from Designer’s Guide to Creating Charts & Diagrams by Nigel Holmes