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Howard Wainer

Picturing the Uncertain World

How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display

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In his entertaining and informative book Graphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear. Now he's back with Picturing 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 a New Yorker cartoon, Wainer illustrates the many ways graphs can be used--and misused--as we try to make sense of an uncertain world.Picturing the Uncertain World takes re… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-4008-3289-7
  • EAN: 9781400832897
  • Produktnummer: 35961207
  • Verlag: Cabi
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Abbildungen: 11 color illus. 14 halftones. 81 line illus. 12 tables.

Über den Autor


Howard Wainer is distinguished research scientist at the National Board of Medical Examiners and adjunct professor of statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His many books include Graphic Discovery (Princeton).

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