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Lesson 6: Semiotics, navigation, procedure and environment

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Course Content  ::  Lesson 6

Reading

Tufte, E. R. (1983). Intro, Chapter 1, and Chapter 8, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Cheshire, Connecticut: Graphics Press.

Discussion

Use of graphics in real-world discussions
Which of the vignettes in the chapter was the most compelling, or the most revealing? You might be able to find an example from your own work where people mis-read the point of your display. Can you offer such an example?

Copyright 2008, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. admin. (2008, May 19). Lesson 6: Semiotics, navigation, procedure and environment. Retrieved November 23, 2009, from Free Online Course Materials — USU OpenCourseWare Web site: http://ocw.usu.edu/Instructional_Technology/data-visualization-theory-practice/Lesson_6__Semiotics__navigation__procedure_and_environment.html. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Creative Commons License
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