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Picturing the uncertain world : how to understand, communicate, and control uncertainty through graphical display /
From the publisher. This book explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous or incomplete. Using a visually diverse sampling of graphical display, from heartrending autobiographical displays of genocide in the Kovno ghetto to the "Pie Chart of Myste...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The most dangerous equation
- Curbstoning IQ and the 2000 presidential election
- Stumbling on the path toward the visual communication of complexity
- Using graphs to simplify the complex : the Medicare drug plan as an example
- A political statistic
- A Catch-22 in assigning primary delegates
- Testing the disabled : using statistics to navigate between the Scylla of standards and the Charybdis of court decisions
- Ethnic bias or statistical artifact? : Freedle's folly
- Insignificant is not zero : musing on the College Board's understanding of uncertainty
- How long is short?
- Improving data displays
- Old Mother Hubbard and the United Nations
- Depicting error
- The Mendel effect
- Truth is slower than fiction
- Galton's normal
- Nobody's perfect
- When form violates function
- A graphical legacy of Charles Joseph Minard : two jewels from the past
- La diffusion de quelques idées : a master's voice
- Numbers and the remembrance of things past.