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Edward Tufte

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Name: Edward Tufte

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 13 2013 - 1 reports

A Designer Overhauls The NSA’s Atrocious Powerpoint Presentation

Slide show expert Emiland De Cubber transforms the NSA’s clunky Prism deck with minimalist cool.24When news of the NSA’s classified Prism program broke last week, revealing that the U.S. government had ordered the collection of all Americans’ online activities, ... [Published Fast Company - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: US National Security Agency, Microsoft PowerPoint, PRISM (Surveillance Program)

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Google Inc

NSA Prism: Inside The Modern Surveillance State

The government's approach seems to be: "Collect first, ask questions later."Dystopia used to seem sexier. In George Orwell's 1984 , Big Brother used non-stop wars and ever-present surveillance to keep the population in check. A stray glance or thoughtcrime ... [Published Network Computing - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: PRISM (Surveillance Program), Surveillance, Google Inc, Edward Tufte

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

Prism: the PowerPoint presentation so ugly it was meant to stay secret

The shock of the NSA revelations is less in the content of their slides than quite how badly they have been designed Shock horror, America (allegedly) is spying (allegedly) on everyone (allegedly)! Last week's revelations of the top secret Prism surveillance ... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Microsoft PowerPoint, PRISM (Surveillance Program), US National Security Agency

First reported Jun 12 2013 - Updated Jun 12 2013 - 1 reports

How Infographics Are Helping Congress Get To The Point

Congress is elected to represent the people and cast votes on their behalf in regards to policy and law. Many of the bills and issues brought before Congress for a vote are well outside the areas of expertise of the individual Congress members, yet they ... [Published PSFK - Jun 12 2013]

Entities: Edward Tufte, Congressional Budget Office, Corroboration, Index

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

A Conversation with Dan Klyn: Richard Saul Wurman & IA for UXers

By Patrick Quattlebaum 0 Comments Patrick Quattlebaum: Hi Dan. Youre doing double duty this year with both a talk, The Five Essential Lessons from the Life of , and a workshop on . Lets begin with the talk. What started your interest in specifically? ... [Published Adaptive Path - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Architecture, Richard Saul Wurman, Edward Tufte

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

Antonin Scalia

Privacy pileup: Panopticon, Prism, and PowerPoint

This week, the vexing constitutional questions keep piling up: How do we balance the goals of crime-solving and national security with personal privacy and other civil liberties? How do we apply the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search ... [Published Yahoo! News - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Microsoft PowerPoint, PRISM (Surveillance Program), Edward Tufte, Jeremy Bentham, Antonin Scalia

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 08 2013 - 3 reports

US National Security Agency

The real NSA scandal? The horrible slides.

Bad graphic design. The Yale political scientist and data visualization guru Edward Tufte went off on the NSA for its horrific PowerPoint graphics Thursday night: Dreadful spy-PRISM deck sets new record for most header logos per slide: 13 washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special… ... [Published Ezra Klein - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Edward Tufte, US National Security Agency, Microsoft PowerPoint

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

Even the NSA can't use PowerPoint well

The reports that the National Security Agency is tapping directly into the servers of nine tech companies, published Thursday by The Washington Post and the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper, are deeply unsettling on many levels. In response to the news, many ... [Published Washington Post - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Microsoft PowerPoint, US National Security Agency, H. R. McMaster, Edward Tufte

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

NSA Prism PowerPoint Slides Are Shockingly Awful

It's a secretive body which appears to be able to tap directly into the servers of nine of the biggest internet companies, from Google, to Facebook, to AOL.It has caused a nationwide outrage, a damaging scandal for Barack Obama and has far-reaching national ... [Published Huffington Post UK - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Microsoft PowerPoint, US National Security Agency, Edward Tufte, Stanley McChrystal

First reported Jun 07 2013 - Updated Jun 07 2013 - 1 reports

A brief history of the US government’s awful graphic design

The revelation that major US technology companies are participating in a National Security Administration surveillance program was shocking enough. And that was before we saw the top-secret slides used by the government to describe the spying operation. ... [Published Quartz - Jun 07 2013]

Entities: Graphic Design, United States Government, Edward Tufte

First reported May 30 2013 - Updated May 30 2013 - 2 reports

The Rise of the Dataviz Expert

Big data doesn't work if decision-makers can't absorb what it means. Enter the data visualization expert to sort it all out.A picture's worth a million data points. That's the mantra, anyway, in business analytics these days.As the big data trend intensifies ... [Published Computerworld India - May 30 2013]

Entities: DataViz, Edward Tufte, Big Data, Business Intelligence, Cisco Systems Inc

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 3 reports

The Rise of the Data Visualization Expert

As analytics become more ingrained in corporations, data visualizers are the new go-to experts in demand -- but do they work for IT or give IT its marching orders? Computerworld A picture's worth a million data points. That's the mantra, anyway, in business ... [Published CIO Magazine - May 23 2013]

Entities: Data Visualization, Edward Tufte, Business Intelligence, Big Data

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The Worst Chart In The World [Published Business Insider Australia - 14 hours ago]
The Worst Chart In The World [Published Clusterstock - 14 hours ago]
NSA Prism: Inside The Modern Surveillance State [Published Network Computing - Jun 12 2013]
A Designer Overhauls The NSA’s Atrocious Powerp... [Published Fast Company - Jun 12 2013]
Prism: the PowerPoint presentation so ugly it w... [Published Guardian.co.uk - Jun 12 2013]
How Infographics Are Helping Congress Get To Th... [Published PSFK - Jun 12 2013]
A Conversation with Dan Klyn: Richard Saul Wurm... [Published Adaptive Path - Jun 11 2013]
Privacy pileup: Panopticon, Prism, and PowerPoint [Published Yahoo! News - Jun 11 2013]
The Hot New Career of Idea Entrepreneur: What I... [Published Forbes.com - Jun 10 2013]
Even the NSA can't use PowerPoint well [Published Washington Post - Jun 07 2013]
The real NSA scandal? The horrible slides. [Published Ezra Klein - Jun 07 2013]
Design Guru Slams NSA's PowerPoint Skills [Published Mashable - Jun 07 2013]
Design Guru Slams NSA's PowerPoint Skills [Published Mashable! - Jun 07 2013]
NSA Prism PowerPoint Slides Are Shockingly Awful [Published Huffington Post UK - Jun 07 2013]
A brief history of the US government’s awful gr... [Published Quartz - Jun 07 2013]
The Rise of the Dataviz Expert [Published Computerworld India - May 30 2013]
The next hot skill: Data visualization [Published Computerworld Hong Kong - May 30 2013]
The Rise of the Data Visualization Expert [Published CIO Magazine - May 23 2013]
The Hilarious, Befuddling Charts Of The U.S. Co... [Published Fast Company - May 23 2013]
Tech Careers: The Rise of the Dataviz Expert [Published CIO Magazine - May 23 2013]
Tech hotshots: The rise of the dataviz expert [Published ARN - May 23 2013]
Secure360 (@Secure360) Data Analysis & Visualiz... [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 15 2013]
“EZ Chart” Available for Educational Institutions [Published PRWeb - Apr 30 2013]
How to Tell a Story with Data [Published HBR Blog Network - Apr 23 2013]
SOURCE Boston (@SOURCEConf) Data Analysis & Vis... [Published Security Bloggers Network - Apr 18 2013]
Happy birthday John Snow, father of modern epid... [Published TED Blog - Mar 15 2013]
John Snow's data journalism: the cholera map th... [Published News: Datablog \| guardian.co.uk - Mar 15 2013]
David Brooks \| Big data often can be useful, bu... [Published Centre Daily Times - Feb 25 2013]
Brooks: Data can’t measure quality of social in... [Published South Carolina State - Feb 20 2013]
Core 21c Skillset: Data Literacy [Published Broader Perspective - Feb 11 2013]

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The Worst Chart In The World [Published Clusterstock - 14 hours ago] The pie chart is easily the worst way to convey information ever developed in the history of data visualization. Sure, there are other more cumbersome ways to articulate data. But none have the credibility nor the widespread use that the pie chart ...
The real NSA scandal? The horrible slides. [Published Ezra Klein - Jun 07 2013] Bad graphic design. The Yale political scientist and data visualization guru Edward Tufte went off on the NSA for its horrific PowerPoint graphics Thursday night: Dreadful spy-PRISM deck sets new record for most header logos per slide: 13 washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special… ...
Design Guru Slams NSA's PowerPoint Skills [Published Mashable! - Jun 07 2013] Say what you like about the NSA's Internet-monitoring PRISM program . One thing is clear from the leaked slides that revealed it to the world: The top intelligence agency in the U.S. has some pretty awful PowerPoint skills. No one knows that ...
Secure360 (@Secure360) Data Analysis & Visualiz... [Published Security Bloggers Network - May 15 2013] Many thanks to all who attended the talk @jayjacobs & I gave at @Secure360 on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. As promised, here are the slides . We’ve enumerated quite a bit of non-slide-but-in-presentation information that we wanted to aggregate into ...
How to Tell a Story with Data [Published HBR Blog Network - Apr 23 2013] An excellent visualization, according to Edward Tufte , expresses "complex ideas communicated with clarity, precision and efficiency." I would add that an excellent visualization also tells a story through the graphical depiction of statistical information. ...