Graphic Discovery : : A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures /

Graphic Discovery : : A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures / / Howard Wainer.

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Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet they are a modern invention. This book is the first to comprehensively plot humankind's fascinating efforts to visuali...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Wainer, Howard,
MitwirkendeR:
Spence, Ian,
Wainer, Howard,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2005
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.) :; 14 halftones. 93 line illus. 8 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Part I. William Playfair and the Origins of Graphical Display
  • 1. Why Playfair?
  • 2. Who Was Playfair?
  • 3. William Playfair: A Daring Worthless Fellow
  • 4. Scaling the Heights (and Widths)
  • 5. A Priestley View of International Currency Exchanges
  • 6. Tom's Veggies and the American Way
  • 7. The Graphical Inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: Two Precursors to William Playfair
  • 8. Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the Graphic Discovery of Weather Patterns
  • Part II. Using Graphical Displays to Understand the Modern World
  • 9. A Graphical Investigation of the Scourge of Vietnam
  • 10. Two Mind-Bending Statistical Paradoxes
  • 11. Order in the Court
  • 12. No Order in the Court
  • 13. Like a Trout in the Milk
  • 14. Scaling the Market
  • 15. Sex, Smoking, and Life Insurance: A Graphical View
  • 16. There They Go Again!
  • 17. Sex and Sports: How Quickly Are Women Gaining?
  • 18. Clear Thinking Made Visible: Redesigning Score Reports for Students
  • Part III. Graphical Displays in the Twenty-first Century
  • 19. John Wilder Tukey: The Father of Twenty-first-Century Graphical Display
  • 20. Graphical Tools for the Twenty-first Century: I. Spinning and Slicing
  • 21. Graphical Tools for the Twenty-first Century: II. Nearness and Smoothing Engines
  • 22. Epilogue: A Selection of Selection Anomalies
  • Conclusion
  • Dramatis Personae
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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