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" personalized and readable jaunt through the history of charting". -- The Economist
"It is a remarkable value that every practitioner of statistics can afford". -- Malcolm James Ree, Personnel Psychology
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Well written and innovative. . . . The book is fascinating with its wide view, including introductions to historical personalities, analyses of statistical paradoxes, and well-documented discussions of actual uses of visual data to mislead viewers.
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During a dairyman's strike in 19th century New England, when there was suspicion of milk being watered down, Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Sometimes circumstantial evidence can be quite convincing; like when you find a trout in the milk.' Howard Wainer uses this as a metaphor in his entertaining, informative, and persuasive book on graphs, or the visual communication of information. Sometimes a well-designed graph tells a very convincing story.
(Raymond N. Greenwell MAA Online )
Wainer's wit and broad intellect make this a very entertaining book.
(da Pickle, ,"American Statistician )
[A] personalized and readable jaunt through the history of charting.
(The Economist )
This book may be seen as a chronology of graphic date presentation beginning with Playfair to the present and pointing toward the future. . . . It is a remarkable value that every practitioner of statistics can afford.
(Malcolm James Ree Personnel Psychology )
Graphic Discovery is a welcome addition to the literature on investigation and effective communication through graphic display. It contains a wealth of information and opinions, which are motivated and illustrated through a plethora of real life examples which can be easily incorporated into any educational setting: classroom, seminar, self-enhancement. . . . This book will be useful to and it can be mastered by a diverse readership.
(Thomas E. Bradstreet Computational Statistics )
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" personalized and readable jaunt through the history of charting". -- The Economist
"It is a remarkable value that every practitioner of statistics can afford". -- Malcolm James Ree, Personnel Psychology
Review
Well written and innovative. . . . The book is fascinating with its wide view, including introductions to historical personalities, analyses of statistical paradoxes, and well-documented discussions of actual uses of visual data to mislead viewers.
(Choice )
During a dairyman's strike in 19th century New England, when there was suspicion of milk being watered down, Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'Sometimes circumstantial evidence can be quite convincing; like when you find a trout in the milk.' Howard Wainer uses this as a metaphor in his entertaining, informative, and persuasive book on graphs, or the visual communication of information. Sometimes a well-designed graph tells a very convincing story.
(Raymond N. Greenwell MAA Online )
Wainer's wit and broad intellect make this a very entertaining book.
(da Pickle, ,"American Statistician )
[A] personalized and readable jaunt through the history of charting.
(The Economist )
This book may be seen as a chronology of graphic date presentation beginning with Playfair to the present and pointing toward the future. . . . It is a remarkable value that every practitioner of statistics can afford.
(Malcolm James Ree Personnel Psychology )
Graphic Discovery is a welcome addition to the literature on investigation and effective communication through graphic display. It contains a wealth of information and opinions, which are motivated and illustrated through a plethora of real life examples which can be easily incorporated into any educational setting: classroom, seminar, self-enhancement. . . . This book will be useful to and it can be mastered by a diverse readership.
(Thomas E. Bradstreet Computational Statistics )
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"Getting information from a table is like extracting sunbeams from a cucumber" (Farquhar and Farquhar). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
graphical inventions, jurist born, quantitative phenomena, political atlas, statistical graphs, statistical graphics, good graph, private elementary schools Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Playfair, New Jersey, Boston Marathon, Simpson's Paradox, Vietnam War, John Tukey, New York Times, World War, United States, Princeton University Library, Supreme Court, Robert Plot, Thomas Jefferson, James Watt, Bell Labs, Francis Galton, John Playfair, Lady Jane, Price Waterhouse, Soviet Union, Washington Post, Adam Ferguson, Archibald Douglas, Broad Street, Christiaan Huygens New!
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- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte in Front Matter, page 26, and Back Matter
- The Life of Reason (Five Volumes in One) by George Santayana on page 31, and Back Matter
- Ferguson: An Essay on the History of Civil Society (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) by Adam Ferguson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Zoo Story (Acting Edition) by Edward Albee on page 39, and Back Matter
- The Elements of Graphing Data by William S. Cleveland on page 53, and Back Matter
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