Quotes from Tufte’s course

I took Edward Tufte’s online course on analysing and presenting data. It lasted four hours and was a mixture of reading from his books and listening to lecture material. The course was terrific and I learned so much. As I was taking the course, I took down a few quotes that stood out to me. I feel some of these points have applications that stretch further than data presentation.Here is what I noted down. All quotes from Tufte.“It is not about how much information there is, but rather how effectively it is arranged.”“The information is the interface.”“They have come to your presentation for the content.” (Italics represent aural emphasis.)“How do I/you/they really know that?”“How could I/you/they possibly ever know that?”“There are a million possible sequences, so let them [people] decide how to read it on their own.”I will be thinking about these for a while.The last quote in particular was interesting to me. Early on in the course, Tufte walked through the visual layout of a U.S.…