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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wainer, Howard
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Uncertainty (Information theory) > Graphic methods.
Communication in science > Graphic methods.
Incertitude (Théorie de l'information) > Méthodes graphiques.
Information scientifique > Méthodes graphiques.
SCIENCE > Philosophy & Social Aspects.
Grafische Darstellung
Statistik
Unsicherheit
Informationsteori.
Grafiska metoder.
Naturvetenskap.
Uncertainty.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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