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Use when a display, interface, model, or taxonomy is being accepted in its inherited form; when a default format, style sheet, grid, or chart type is chosen by convention rather than by content; when 3D reality is being flattened into a 2D model; when a claim needs tracing to primary measurement; when links or arrows are unlabeled; or when a reviewer asks how a claim is really known.
jpoindexter/tufte-skills · ★ 0 · AI & Automation · score 70
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# Tufte: Visual Thinking and Seeing With Fresh Eyes ## Overview Tufte's claim in *Seeing With Fresh Eyes* (Graphics Press, 2020) is that visual thinking and analytical thinking are the same cognitive act, not a "creative" track and a "rigorous" track. The shared enemy of both is the self-confirming word — the inherited name or default model accepted without ever looking at the thing itself. The operating rule throughout: do not stop at what a thing is *named*; see what it *does*. The book runs an **Introduction plus nine chapters** (TOC, p. 3): | Ch. | Title | Printed pp. | Where it is covered | |---|---|---|---| | — | Introduction: The Thinking Eye | 4 | §1 below | | 1 | Meaning and Space | 6 | §2–§4 below | | 2 | Content-Responsive Typography | 49 | §5 summary → `tufte-typography-for-data` | | 3 | Graphical Sentences | 64 | §6 below | | 4 | Data Analysis When Truth Matters | 80 | §7 below; full audit procedure → `tufte-data-forensics` | | 5 | Annotations | 121 | → `tufte-annotation-as-thinking` | | 6 | Instructions at Point of Need | 131 | → `tufte-instructions-at-point-of-need` | | 7 | Lists | 141 | stacklist material in §6; full treatment → `tufte-lists` | | 8 | Smarter and Shorter Meetings | 151 | → `tufte-meetings-and-documents` (format critique in `tufte-cognitive-style`) | | 9 | A Visual Index, A Quilt of Sources | 162 | → `tufte-visual-index` (quilt form in `tufte-visual-confections`) | All page numbers below are **printed** pages of the 2020 edition. --- ## §