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by baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU (8.9.1a/8.9.1) id JAA07128
for icon-group-addresses; Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:08:35 -0700 (MST)
Message-Id: <199902111608.JAA07128@baskerville.CS.Arizona.EDU>
To: icon-group@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Date: 11 Feb 1999 06:02:35 GMT
From: jeffery@cs.utsa.edu (Clinton Jeffery)
Subject: Re: BART schedule, Tufte and Icon
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@optima.CS.Arizona.EDU
Status: RO
Eric O'Dell (eodell@pobox.com) wrote:
: SM> I wrote a little Icon program to draw Bart (San Francisco area metro
: SM> railway) schedules as first drawn by E. J. Marey and popularised by
: SM> E. R. Tufte.
: I feel much less geeky now knowing that I'm not the only person in the
: world who thinks E. R. Tufte is really cool. ;-)
Tufte is the antithesis of geeky. Geeks do not go for $995-a-day seminars
of the kind Tufte has been doing. His first book is especially cool, so I
still recommend him to anyone interested in information visualization. Has
anyone checked out his third book, to see if it is better than his second?
--
Clint Jeffery, jeffery@cs.utsa.edu
Research http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/plss.html
Will Hack Icon For Food!