Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures /
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2005]
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Table of Contents:
- I: William Playfair and the origins of graphical display
- Why playfair?
- Who was playfair? / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer
- William Playfair: a daring worthless fellow / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer
- Scaling the heights (and widths)
- A priestley view of international currency exchanges
- Tom's veggies and the American way
- The graphical inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: two precursors to William Playfair
- Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the graphic discovery of weather patterns
- II: Using graphical displays to understand the modern world
- A graphical investigation of the scourge of Vietnam
- Two mind-bending statistical paradoxes
- Order in the court
- No order in the court
- Like a trout in the milk
- Scaling the market
- Sex, smoking, and life insurance: a graphical view
- There they go again !
- Sex and sports: how quickly are women gaining?
- Clear thinking made visible: redesigning score reports for students
- III: Graphical displays in the twenty-first century
- John Wilder Tukey: the father of twenty-first-century graphical display
- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: I. Spinning and slicing
- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: II. Nearness and smoothing engines
- A selection of anomalies
- Dramatis personae.