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Title: Complicating the complex.
Review: Edward Tufte prides himself on making very complex information accessible. What he doesn't understand is that the average person can not make sense of convoluted charts and graphs. Not everyone can read 5 pt type and overlapping hairline strokes, making his examples successfully unsuccessful.Tufte's choice of words clearly demonstrates his lack of interest in the "'average' consumer." His writing is overly complicated, much too proud and irrelevant. Intimidating is the antithesis of accessible. "Excessive" immediately comes to mind.If you are looking for a book from which to copy a few sentences to impress your boss, this book is great. If you are looking for insight into explaining very complex information to a very wide group of people, then steer clear.Thoroughly disappointed.PS - Don't attend his workshops. You may as well go on a "team-building retreat."
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