1. Envisioning Information
MIS 696A
Reference: Books by Edward Tufte

2. The Last Piece of Evidence

3. The Last Piece of Evidence

4. Cholera Epidemic: Guess the Savior

5. Cholera Epidemic: Guess the Savior
Snow wrote in his report:

6. Numerically Modeled Severe Storm
Available Information:
Time-stamp
2-D projection of the computational domain
Sense of Movement
Missing Information:
Scale
Orientation
Labels

7. Numerically Modeled Severe Storm
Available Information:
Scale
Orientation
Labels
Time-Line
Temporal Sequence

8. Launching The Challenger
NASA officials point out serious weaknesses in Thiokol’s charts !!
Groupthink
Bureaucratic failure to communicate

9. Launching The Challenger