Janet Chang’s Blog about Design

Edward Tufte lecture materials

In July, 2007, I attended Edward Tufte’s “Presenting Data and Information” one-day lecture. For me, that was one of the most in depth introduction to the techniques of data presentation.

At the time I was playing with 37singlas‘ document managament and file sharing tool “Backpack”. Naturally I created a page uploading notes from the course to share with fellow designers.

The notes contain details such as takeaways, bullets, and were accompanied with correlated graphs and book references. To transfer the entire content from Backpack to Wordpress would be quite a labor-intensive task. However, feel free to check out my Edward Tufte lecture page in Backpack.

A side note to share my experience using Backpack. The success of Backpack has a lot to do with its simplicity and flexibility. Two crucial and rare characteristics many products are lacking.