# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edward-tufte
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:01:30.419Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edward-tufte"
name: "Edward Tufte"
slug: "edward-tufte"
description: "Edward Rolf Tufte, sometimes known as \"ET\", is an American statistician and professor emeritus of political science, statistics, and computer science at Yale University. He is noted for his writings on information design and as a pioneer in the field of data visualization."
tagline: "American statistician (b.1942) noted for his writings on information design"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edward_Tufte_-_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1942-03-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "EdwardTufte"
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    handle:    "EdwardTufte"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://edwardtufte.com"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Edward Tufte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte"
    title: "Edward Tufte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Tufte"
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    title: "Edward Tufte"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump