Picturing the Uncertain World How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty Through Graphical Display
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Sprache:Englisch
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Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
30.10.2011
Abbildungen
w. 106 ill.
Verlag
Princeton University PressSeitenzahl
264
Maße (L/B/H)
23/17.9/2.2 cm
Gewicht
505 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-691-15267-7
Picturing the Uncertain World takes readers on an extraordinary graphical adventure, revealing how the visual communication of data offers answers to vexing questions yet also highlights the measure of uncertainty in almost everything we do. Are cancer rates higher or lower in rural communities? How can you know how much money to sock away for retirement when you don't know when you'll die? And where exactly did nineteenth-century novelists get their ideas? These are some of the fascinating questions Wainer invites readers to consider. Along the way he traces the origins and development of graphical display, from William Playfair, who pioneered the use of graphs in the eighteenth century, to instances today where the public has been misled through poorly designed graphs.
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