Data Vis Book Club: Let's read Tufte together!
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A T T E N T I O N : The space in the Datawrapper office is limited. Please only sign up if you actually want to read the book, to not take away space from others. If you want to read the book but can't make it to the Meetup, there will also be a digital meetup happening on the 14th of August. Read this blog post to learn more: https://blog.datawrapper.de/bookclub-tufte/
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Do you keep getting recommendations for data vis books, maybe even buy them, but don’t make it a priority to read them? How about we read these books together? How about we discuss the books we read, for the joy of it, and to get more out of it? That’s the idea behind the Data Vis Book Club.
Our first book is a data vis classic and can be found unread on many shelves: “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information” by Edward Tufte, in the second edition from 2001. On August 15th, we'll meet at the Datawrapper office to discuss this book!
How does the book club work?
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You get the book. Ask your local library to order it for you or buy it (used).
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We all read the same book. That’s where the fun begins! If you want get your Twitter followers involved, please use the hashtag #datavisclub, so that we have a good overview. If you don’t want to spam your Twitter followers, we also have a document set up where we can all collectively write down notes & surprising bits that you found: https://notes.datawrapper.de/p/bookclub-tufte
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We get together on August 15th to talk about the book. Our conversation will be structured with the help of three questions:
Three questions to think about
A What was the most surprising thing you’ve learned? Choose a text passage, and explain how it challenged something you assumed.
B Select one of your favorite data visualizations. Is it working well because of a principle that Tufte explained? Or do you appreciate something about it although it goes against Tufte’s principles?
C Having read the book, what will you do differently the next time you design a chart?
You can prepare for this question, or, if you won’t find the time, don’t prepare anything at all and just come by and chat.
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Very much looking forward to seeing you! Let's discuss Tufte :)