Information visualisationData ink design principles

20 April 2015

Erik DuvalDept. Computerwetenschappen, KULeuvenhttp://erikduval.wordpress.com & @ErikDuval

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Tufte’s principles

• Above all else show the data

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• Data ink: “non-erasable core of a graphic...”(Tufte, 1983)

• Data-ink ratio

= data-ink / total ink

= Proportion of a graphic’s ink devoted to the non-redundant display of data-information.

= 1.0 – proportion of graphic that can be erased without the loss of information

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Tufte’s principles

• Maximise the data-ink ratio, within reason

• Erase non-data ink, within reason

• Erase redundant data-ink

• Revise and edit

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“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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