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If you like this type of thing... Having taken his one-day "class," I highly recommend it. A wonderful, saturated experience on how to structure data, and allow

If you like this type of thing... Having taken his one-day "class," I highly recommend it. A wonderful, saturated experience on how to structure data, and allowing it to become maximum-useful information. And no, he does not like PowerPoint. Ticket price includes his four hardbound books. (I don't work for him, get a kickback, etc.)

jrochkind1 11y ago
I did not find his one-day lecture nearly as useful as MikeNomad did, I wouldn't recommend it myself. I do like the books I got to take home though.
- viggity 11y ago
  me too. he kinda seemed like a jackass. and the class was huge and he mostly rambled about powerpoint sucking and didn't spend a lot of time on visualization. he also took 45 minutes to show a slideshow of his sculptures. Dude. I didn't spend $400 on an 8 hour class so you could show me your welding skills.
bane 11y ago
I found his class very ho-hum -- it's mostly Tufte quietly rambling over a number of examples and promoting some of his ideas (artistic and otherwise). I went with a small group and many had never heard of Tufte before. They were so turned off by the class that they swore him off before it was over. Later, many of them came around after they read one of his books, which are excellent and his work has slowly become very influential with my group. I think what Tufte does very well, is to bring a well reasoned critical eye to deconstructing other people's information displays. I don't think he's as good at synthesizing information displays -- his major work being the sparkline and his books. As a result he can come across as dismissive of other people's hard work. The people who got the most out of his class seemed to be those that were already quite familiar with his method of critical review. I don't think I would bring people to his class who weren't already quite familiar with his methods.

jrochkind1 11y ago

I did not find his one-day lecture nearly as useful as MikeNomad did, I wouldn't recommend it myself. I do like the books I got to take home though.

viggity 11y ago
me too. he kinda seemed like a jackass. and the class was huge and he mostly rambled about powerpoint sucking and didn't spend a lot of time on visualization. he also took 45 minutes to show a slideshow of his sculptures. Dude. I didn't spend $400 on an 8 hour class so you could show me your welding skills.

bane 11y ago

I found his class very ho-hum -- it's mostly Tufte quietly rambling over a number of examples and promoting some of his ideas (artistic and otherwise). I went with a small group and many had never heard of Tufte before. They were so turned off by the class that they swore him off before it was over. Later, many of them came around after they read one of his books, which are excellent and his work has slowly become very influential with my group. I think what Tufte does very well, is to bring a well reasoned critical eye to deconstructing other people's information displays. I don't think he's as good at synthesizing information displays -- his major work being the sparkline and his books. As a result he can come across as dismissive of other people's hard work. The people who got the most out of his class seemed to be those that were already quite familiar with his method of critical review. I don't think I would bring people to his class who weren't already quite familiar with his methods.