Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures /
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[2005]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Graphic discovery : |b a trout in the milk and other visual adventures / |c Howard Wainer. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Princeton, NJ : |b Princeton University Press, |c [2005] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2005 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (209 pages) : |b illustrations, maps | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-184) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 590 | |a Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. | ||
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Playfair, William, |d 1759-1823. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mathematical statistics |x Graphic methods. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mathematical statistics |x History |y 18th century. | |
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| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Print version: |a Wainer, Howard. |t Graphic discovery : a trout in the milk and other visual adventures. |d Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2005] |h xvi, 192 pages ; 27 cm. |z 9780691134055 |w (OCoLC)ocm53926612 |w (DLC) 2003066083 |
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