Online Course

Analyzing/Presenting Data/Information:
An Online Video Course Taught by Edward Tufte

Topics covered in the online course:

  • A new, widely-adopted method for presentations: meetings are smarter, more effective, 20% shorter.
  • Fundamental design strategies for all information displays: sentences, tables, diagrams, maps, charts, images, video, data visualizations, and randomized displays for making graphical statistical inferences.
  • New ideas on spectatorship, consuming reports. How to assess the credibility of a presentation and its presenter, how to detect cherry-picking, how to reason about alternative explanations.
  • Standards of comparison for workaday and for cutting edge visualizations. How to identify excellent information architectures and use them as models and comparison sets for your own work and for the work of your contractors. Monitoring the designs of others.
  • The future of information displays: 4K, 6K, 8K video maps moving in time.
  • Practical examples are from everywhere: science, social science, music, business, finance, sports, art, medicine, architecture, NASA, government reports.

The Edward Tufte 5-book collection is included with your purchase of the Online Course.

Edward Tufte 5 Book Collection

Fees

The fee for the online course is $240. This fee includes the 4 hour video and all five paperback books, Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Beautiful Evidence and the new book, Seeing with fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, and Truth. 

International shipping of course materials costs an additional $75.

Graphics Press federal tax ID number: 06-1637582

Discounts

Student, Faculty, Postdoc Discount

For full-time teaching faculty, students, postdocs, the fee is $160.
If you purchase at the Student/Faculty/Postdoc rate, an administrator will follow up with you for verification/documentation.

Group Discount

Groups of 10 or more, registering simultaneously, receive a 25% discount.

For group registrations please contact Graphics Press.

Discounts may not be combined.

Course Access

After online registration/payment, you will receive an email confirmation of your purchase. The 5 books will be shipped to you directly. A password to access the online video course will be included with your shipment of books.

Access to the online course expires 1 year from the date of purchase.

Cancellation

All sales are final. No cancellations or refunds.

Questions

Call 800 822-2454 or 203 272-9187 between 9.00 am and 5.00 pm EST, or email us via the contact page.

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Purchase orders should be emailed to tufte@graphicspress.com, by fax 203 272-8600, or mailed to Graphics Press LLC, P.O. Box 430, Cheshire, CT 06410. For group discount please contact Graphics Press 800 822-2454 between 9.00am and 5.00 pm EST or email tufte@graphicspress.com.

Press & Reviews

Tao Security
"Best single-day class ever." - Tao Security 		Jun 8, 2008
The New York Times
"The da Vinci of data." - Deborah Shapely 		Jan 29, 2024
Bloomberg
"In university halls and conference centers, Tufte's appeal crackles. Fans spend the day looking at art and information through Tufte's eyes, as he walks them through images and analysis of his books. In 4 books and popular auditorium gigs, he teaches by visual example. Next to a bad example of a graph, he positions a sublimely clear treatment, often using the same data. Tufte's work is relevant to anyone who needs to write or present information clearly, from business executives to students. About 10 years ago, The New York Times crowned Tufte the "da Vinci of data." A more fitting title might be the "Galileo of graphics." Where da Vinci is remembered as an inventor of new technologies, Galileo put right our understanding of the solar system by positioning the sun at its center. Tufte, who owns a handful of nearly 400-year-old first editions by Galileo considers the early scientist a master of analytical design." - Adam Aston 		Jun 10, 2009
The Washington Monthly
"The Information Sage: Meet Edward Tufte, the graphics guru to the power elite who is revolutionizing how we see data. Edward Tufte's many government data presentations in Washington, DC, including his presidential appointment to the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel and work on recovery.org." - Joshua Yaffa 		Apr 26, 2011
WIRED
"One visionary day. Few speak as eloquently as Edward Tufte, whose theories of information design not only illuminate, they inspire. In a full-day seminar, Tufte, author of the classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, uses maps, graphs, charts, and tables to communicate what prose alone cannot. For information designers Tufte's work is a model of clarity and craftsmanship. Given that the heart of his enterprise is statistics (of which he's a professor at Yale), one might worry about "lognormal distributions" and "trimetric projections." This would be a mistake. Tufte keeps jargon to a minimum. His insights lead to new levels of understanding both for creators and viewers of visual display. What makes Tufte most persuasive are his works themselves: His books and his seminar embody his belief that "good design is clear thinking made visible." - Peter Myers 		Jan 1, 1999
Nicolas Bissantz
"Ivy League Rock and Roll: Edward Tufte, the world's most renowned visualization expert, holds legendary information design courses. I recently was among the hundreds that flock to each of his live performances. What an experience! Tufte's seminars are legendary. Anyone who deals with data and visualization on a professional level knows his books. Today in Washington's Crystal Forum many participants come from government agencies and military institutions. There are also several students whose majors range from information technology and graphic design to economics, biology and medicine. Some, balancing notebooks on their laps, will take detailed notes so that they can fully absorb Tufte's messages later at home. He gently takes an awe-striking original from Galileo Galilei or a centuries-old copy of Euclid's scripts and proceeds to carry it down the aisle. Later, one of his assistants will also walk through the auditorium with one of these precious books in hand." - Nicolas Bissantz 		Mar 23, 2007
Jared Spool
"Go to Edward Tufte workshop. A rite of passage for every designer." - Jared Spool 		Jul 12, 2016
NPR
"Edward Tufte wants you to see better" - Flora Lichtman 		Jan 18, 2013