{"id":10419,"date":"2012-12-09T20:31:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T01:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=10419"},"modified":"2012-12-09T22:23:48","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T03:23:48","slug":"quantitative-reasoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=10419","title":{"rendered":"Quantitative reasoning"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sure Edward Tufte spends fully 50% of his time patiently explaining to people that the ingenious graphical map elucidating Napoleon’s march on Russia and its ill-fated aftermath were, in fact, the work of Charles Joseph Minard<\/a> (1781-1870), not Edward Tufte himself, despite the inexplicable fact that Minard’s map appears as the most common result in a Google image search for “Tufte”.<\/p>\n\n\n
 
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But does anybody listen? No.<\/p>\n

So we end up living in an unfair world in which Tufte becomes widely mis-credited with Minard’s brilliant creation, in spite of the unceasing and commendable self-effacement with which Mr. Tufte himself no doubt tries to explain these facts to anyone who will listen.<\/p>\n

Yet if one individual is to be credited with bringing the visual display of quantitative information into modern consciousness, it is surely the writer, director, comedienne and actor Elaine May<\/a>, who popularized the essential concepts back in 1967, as you can see in the following succinct yet powerful demonstration:<\/p>\n\n\n
 
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I’m sure Edward Tufte spends fully 50% of his time patiently explaining to people that the ingenious graphical map elucidating Napoleon’s march on Russia and its ill-fated aftermath were, in fact, the work of Charles Joseph Minard (1781-1870), not Edward Tufte himself, despite the inexplicable fact that Minard’s map appears as the most common result … Continue reading “Quantitative reasoning”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10419"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10477,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10419\/revisions\/10477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}