Edward R Tufte
Biographic Data
| ID | 266325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edward R Tufte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edward R |
| FAMILY NAME | Tufte |
| SIGNATURE | TUFTE E R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 676 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth
Seeing with Fresh Eyes: Meaning, Space, Data, Truth
Edward R. Tufte. 1975. “Determinants of the Outcomes of Midterm Congressional Elections.” American Political Science Review 69 (September): 812–826. Cited 259 times
Bernard Berelson wrote a memoir about Human Behavior: An Inventory of Scientific Findings , a book that brought together 1,003 findings about human behavior with some reasonable supporting evidence. Berelson offered a threefold grand summary of all social science research: (1) Some do, some don't. (2) The differences aren't very great. (3) It's more complicated than that
Beautiful evidence
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Second Edition
The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint
Using specific examples, Tufte explains how PowerPoint's templates "usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning and almost always corrupt statistical analysis," and describes concrete ways to improve content of presentations.
Visual Explanations: Images and quantities, evidence and narrative.
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Envisioning Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
Envisioning Information
Envisioning Information
Envisioning Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
(1985). The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. Economic Geography: Vol. 61, No. 1, pp. 101-104
The Visual Presentation of Quantitative Data
The Political Economy of National Elections
Political Control of the Economy
Whitehead on Tufte
Spending More and Enjoying It Less: On the Political Economy of Advanced Capitalism
Political Control of the Economy
Small Steps Forward for Political Economy
Determinants of the Outcomes of Midterm Congressional Elections
An explanatory model for the outcomes of midterm congressional elections is developed. Midterms are a referendum on the performance of the President and his administration's management of the economy. The explanatory model of midterm congressional elections is sufficiently powerful so as to yield honest and accurate pre-election predictions of the national two-party vote in midterm elections. These predictions have usually outperformed pre-electi…
The Relationship between Seats and Votes in Two-Party Systems
An enduring fact of life in democratic electoral systems is that the party winning the largest share of the votes almost always receives a still larger share of the seats. This paper tests three models describing the inflation of the legislative power of the victorious party and then develops explanations of the observed differences in the swing ratio and the partisan bias of an electoral system. The "cube law" is rejected as a description, since…
Improving Data Analysis in Political Science
Students of politics use statistical and quantitative techniques to: summarize a large body of numbers into a small collection of typical values;confirm (and perhaps sanctify) the results of the analysis by using tests of statistical significance that help protect against sampling and measurement error;discover what's going on in their data and expose some new relationships; andinform their audience what's going on in the data
A Note of Caution in Causal Modelling
Many empirical investigations in the behavioral sciences today aim at tracing the causes of variations in some key dependent variable. The search for satisfying causal explanations is difficult because of the complexity of social phenomena, the crudeness of the measures of many important variables, and the prevalence of simultaneous cause and effect relations among variables. Although these difficulties remain, a number of important methodologica…
Political Parties, Social Class, and Economic Policy Preferences
ALTHOUGH THE SYNCHRONIZATION OF ECONOMIC FLUCTUations with the electoral cycle often preoccupies political leaders, the real force of political influence on macroeconomic performance comes in the determination of economic priorities. Here the ideology and platform of the political party in power dominate. Just as the electoral calendar helps set the timing of policy, so the ideology of political leaders shapes the substance of economic policy
Are There Bellwether Electoral Districts
The Political Economy of National Elections
Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Small Steps Forward for Political Economy
Political Control of the Economy
Social Problems and Social Policy
Coping with Cuba: Divergent Policy Preferences of State Political Leaders1
Envisioning Information
Political Statistics for the United States: Observations on Some Major Data Sources
Thirteen major data sources for the study of American politics are examined with regard to their conceptual orientation, error structure, and inferential utility. A great deal of ephemera and measurement without theory is discovered. Few of the documents contain any serious discussion of error structure, although some do report "standard errors" based on naive sampling models. In addition to suggestions for improving the compilation of political …
A Note of Caution in Using Variables That Have Common Elements
Journal Article A NOTE OF CAUTION IN USING VARIABLES THAT HAVE COMMON ELEMENTS Get access EDWARD R. TUFTE EDWARD R. TUFTE * Edward R. Tufte is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 4, WINTER 1969, Pages 622–625, https://doi.org/10.1086/267756 Published: 01 January 1969
Constituent-Congressional Communication on Fallout Shelters: The Congressional Polls1
Richard A. Brody, Edward R. Tufte; Constituent-Congressional Communication on Fallout Shelters: The Congressional Polls1, Journal of Communication, Volume
Coping with Cuba: Divergent Policy Preferences of State Political Leaders1
A Note of Caution in Causal Modelling
Many empirical investigations in the behavioral sciences today aim at tracing the causes of variations in some key dependent variable. The search for satisfying causal explanations is difficult because of the complexity of social phenomena, the crudeness of the measures of many important variables, and the prevalence of simultaneous cause and effect relations among variables. Although these difficulties remain, a number of important methodologica…
A Note of Caution in Using Variables That Have Common Elements
Journal Article A NOTE OF CAUTION IN USING VARIABLES THAT HAVE COMMON ELEMENTS Get access EDWARD R. TUFTE EDWARD R. TUFTE * Edward R. Tufte is Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 4, WINTER 1969, Pages 622–625, https://doi.org/10.1086/267756 Published: 01 January 1969
Improving Data Analysis in Political Science
Students of politics use statistical and quantitative techniques to: summarize a large body of numbers into a small collection of typical values;confirm (and perhaps sanctify) the results of the analysis by using tests of statistical significance that help protect against sampling and measurement error;discover what's going on in their data and expose some new relationships; andinform their audience what's going on in the data
Social Problems and Social Policy
Quantitative Evaluation of Electoral Practices and Policies
The Relationship between Seats and Votes in Two-Party Systems
An enduring fact of life in democratic electoral systems is that the party winning the largest share of the votes almost always receives a still larger share of the seats. This paper tests three models describing the inflation of the legislative power of the victorious party and then develops explanations of the observed differences in the swing ratio and the partisan bias of an electoral system. The "cube law" is rejected as a description, since…
Size and Democracy
Data analysis for politics and policy
Electronic Calculators and Data Analysis: A Consumer's Report on the SR-51, HP-21, HP-55, and HP-65
Four of the fancier and newer pocket electronic calculators are evaluated in terms of their utility for doing data analysis, their price, and their quality. Some general principles, perhaps helpful for the consumer of calculators, are derived from the experienceincluding: (1) Always buy at a discount. (2) Competition has its benefits in this sector of the computer industry. (3) Computational technology has overrun input-output technology. (4) Cal…
Are There Bellwether Electoral Districts
Determinants of the Outcomes of Midterm Congressional Elections
An explanatory model for the outcomes of midterm congressional elections is developed. Midterms are a referendum on the performance of the President and his administration's management of the economy. The explanatory model of midterm congressional elections is sufficiently powerful so as to yield honest and accurate pre-election predictions of the national two-party vote in midterm elections. These predictions have usually outperformed pre-electi…
Political Statistics for the United States: Observations on Some Major Data Sources
Thirteen major data sources for the study of American politics are examined with regard to their conceptual orientation, error structure, and inferential utility. A great deal of ephemera and measurement without theory is discovered. Few of the documents contain any serious discussion of error structure, although some do report "standard errors" based on naive sampling models. In addition to suggestions for improving the compilation of political …
Political Control of the Economy
Political Control of the Economy
Political Parties, Social Class, and Economic Policy Preferences
ALTHOUGH THE SYNCHRONIZATION OF ECONOMIC FLUCTUations with the electoral cycle often preoccupies political leaders, the real force of political influence on macroeconomic performance comes in the determination of economic priorities. Here the ideology and platform of the political party in power dominate. Just as the electoral calendar helps set the timing of policy, so the ideology of political leaders shapes the substance of economic policy
Political Control of the Economy
Small Steps Forward for Political Economy
Political Control of the Economy
Whitehead on Tufte
Spending More and Enjoying It Less: On the Political Economy of Advanced Capitalism
The Political Economy of National Elections
The Visual Presentation of Quantitative Data
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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