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2019-04-03 04:40

Yıldızları Yeniden Yazalım Seninle - Clare Swatman TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Arkadya Yayınları

Well, 3 1/2 stars, really, but GoodReads won't permit that. Don't let the horrifically dull title fool you. Edward Tufte knows a thing or two about chart design, to say the least (he's built a second career on this obsession). Think this is dull stuff? Ha, and again I say ha. It's darn sexy. Don't believe me? Consider this consequence of the era of optimism or this version of Little Red Riding Hood or this nifty day-in-the-life or this graphic design shop which is such a brilliant specialist in the whimsical-cum-nostalgic info-graphic style that They Might Be Giants commissioned them to produce everything from the liner notes to Mink Car to the flash animations embedded on No! to their website TMBG.com. And Tufte's book has its share of worthwhile "Aha!" moments as well. Take this snippet from p. 20, which follows six maps of the continental US depicting various types of cancer over a 19 year period by age, sex, and county. Tufte points out the clarity and key moments of interest in the various images (such as death "rates in areas where you have lived"), and then critiques: "The maps repay careful study. Notice how quickly and naturally our attention has been directed toward exploring the substantive content of the data rather than toward questions of methodology and technique. Nonetheless the maps do have their flaws. They wrongly equate the visual importance of each county with its geographic area rather than with the number of people living in the county (or the number of cancer deaths). Our visual impression of the data is entangled with the circumstance of geographic boundaries, shapes, and areas -- the chronic problem afflicting shaded-in-area designs of such 'blot maps' or 'patch maps.'" He goes on to further dissect the presentation and the foundational data in a way that I would never have dreamed of. Talk about your perfectionists... these map examples were drawn by him. At any rate, this book is all about comprehensible, usable design, and Tufte even designed it for maximum impact. Its slim girth (a mere 190 pages) is chock-full of historic graphical errors and successes, but you can read the first 50 alone and get the idea. Given that, I'm a bit taken aback (and yet strangely curious) to have discovered that Tufte has managed to produce at least three more disparate volumes. However, I've since learned that Tufte has some serious (and seriously earned) followers. Just last week, on the theory of in for a penny, in for a pound, I attended a program on improving data analytics, and was pulled aside at the end by one of the organizers who spotted my copy of The Visual Display.... "An important book," he sagely nodded. "You should have them all. But check out Steven Few's perceptualedge.com," he continued. "That's where the rubber really meets the road." Okay, fine, leave me alone! I swear that I'll never look at another pie chart again, just don't make me give up my dependence on the color copier?

2019-04-03 06:40

Bomp! Minik Dinozor - Jo Lodge TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Mikado Yayınları

I read 1919 by John Dos Passos. This is another one of those books-that-everyone-ought-to-read-because-it’s-good-literature. But I can’t say that I found it to be all that great. Stylistically, 1919 was interesting. Dos Passos follows the experiences of five regular Americans as they live their lives during the end of World War I. Many of them go to Europe because of the war, most of them cross paths with each (so the reader sees certain events from multiple points of view) and all of them are generally dissatisfied with their lives and the world. I didn’t like any of them; all the women were whiney and all the men were most concerned with having a good time. And there was lots of talk about the evils of capitalism and wanting the “great worldwide revolution,” neither of which are subjects that I’m particularly interested in reading about. But part of the book takes place in the Pacific Northwest, which is cool. And Dos Passos interjects short bits in between the characters’ stories that give an idea of what’s going on in the world (they are called “Newsreels” and “The Camera’s Eye” and they mimic the style of the old-timey news-reel reports and the stream-of-conciousness style of a camera). I expect that I misssed a lot of neat literature-y things while reading, but I don’t know if I’d have enjoyed it anymore if I had known about any of these things. And since I was reading the book on the plane to New York, I couldn’t have easily found out.

2019-04-03 09:40

Büyük İslam Kadınları ve Hanım Sahabeler TrendKitaplar Kütüphanesi

Tarafından yazılmış kitap Tarafından: Çelik Yayınevi

It's no wonder that Dave Eggers is quoted on the cover of this book, calling it "astounding": in many ways, The Effect of Living Backwards is like a female version of A Heartbreaking Work of a Staggering Genius. We have a young protagonist who thinks she possesses all of life's answers; throughout the book, she belittles others without literally saying so. Now, there's nothing wrong with having a genius protagonist. Until, of course, this protagonist (Alice) is placed in a cocky, first-person point of view in a spectacle of how clever, brainy, and cynical she can be. And it's not even a Holden Caufield sort of cynicism; it's just plain annoying. Take Alice's dialogue, for example: "I support denial in certain extenuating circumstances, for which this certainly qualifies." Blah. In The Effect of Living Backwards, Alice and her sister and flying to the sister's wedding location when the plane is hijacked by mock terrorists who play a series of psychological and philosophical games on their victims. This continues throughout the course of the book, leaving us wondering when they're going to just get off the damn plane. Moreover, you know the narrator isn't going to die, so it's not like you're shivering in suspense over her life. Actually, at a couple points, I hoped they would just shoot her already and put her out of her sneering misery. The main storyline is interspersed with back stories of the passengers. This is where we actually get some meat: the strength of the novel is in its tangents, its imaginative references that are thrown in here and there. But for the most part, it's a novel that's hard to swallow and lacks soul. I became impatient a third of the way through, as the book slowly lost all its potential charm.

Okuyucu Designworld Designworld itibaren Dadiasi, Ghana

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