Pretty wonderful to be taking notes on a book where the author is also an active Twitter used like
If they propose a concept - like Tufte's 'encoding' idea in the book "Visual Explanations" โ easy to track down examples and elaborations in tweet form
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Just added Edward to my to-read list in Roam yesterday. What are you reading?
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Visual Explanations!
Iโd โreadโ it before. But in the before times. ๐ Pre-BASB. Pre-Roam.
Roam notes page:
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Wait - Tufte sees this kind of projection as an impediment to understanding? ๐คฏ
What does he propose instead? Sounds like I have some reading to do!
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He doesnโt seem to be condemming it entirely. Simply that direct labels are preferable.
Closer 1:1 mapping of meanings and visuals is better - encoding requires the reader to figure out the encoding system first, then read the graphic.
Expecting later chapters expand on it...
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