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What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be boiled down and simplified? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. .

Edward R. Tufte

What about confusing clutter? Information overload? Doesn't data have to be boiled down and simplified? These common questions miss the point, for the quantity of detail is an issue completely separate from the difficulty of reading. .

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About Edward R. Tufte

Edward Rolf Tufte (; born March 14, 1942), sometimes known as "ET", is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization.