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. Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

Edward R. Tufte

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Design cannot rescue failed content.

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The key argument is that cognitive tasks should be turned into design principles.

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Beautiful Evidence is about the theory and practice of analytical design.

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I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

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Above all else show the data.

— Edward R. Tufte

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