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Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2008]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 9 A Graphical Investigation of the Scourge of Vietnam10 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. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 20 Graphical Tools for the Twenty-first Century: I. Spinning and Slicing21 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. | |
| 520 | |a 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 visualize data, from a key seventeenth-century precursor--England's plague-driven initiative to register vital statistics--right up to the latest advances. In a highly readable, richly illustrated story of invention and inventor that mixes science and politics, intrigue and scandal, revolution and shopping, | ||
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