Picturing the Uncertain World How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty Through Graphical Display

Name: Picturing the Uncertain World How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty Through Graphical Display
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ISBN: 9780691152677

ISBN-10: 0691152675

ISBN-13: 9780691152677

Edition: 2009

Authors: Howard Wainer

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In his entertaining and informative bookGraphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear. Now he's back withPicturing the Uncertain World, a book that 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 Mystery" in aNew Yorkercartoon, Wainer illustrates the many ways graphs can be used--and misused--as we try to make sense of an uncertain world.Picturing the Uncertain Worldtakes readers on an extraordinary graphical adventure,…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 7.01" wide x 8.98" long x 0.78" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English