SSAC15: The Thinking Eye with Edward Tufte

Invited Speaker at the 9th MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, Friday February 27, 2015, Boston, MA

The thinking eye sees intensely and actively
To scan, focus, to see at varying scales of space and time,
to approximate its way through,
to see multiplicity, how things happen, move, act, interact,
to see with fresh eyes, unhindered by self-confirming words and expectations.

And the thinking eye acts, makes something of seeing and reasoning,
produces, executes, gets on with it.

The thinking eye often sees best without words,
reasons about what things do, cultivates focus and serenity,
has a sense of the relevant, knows what good evidence look like,
and has a taste for excellence.