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Howard Wainer

Graphic Discovery

A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures

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Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet they are a modern invention. This book is the first to comprehensively plot humankind's fascinating efforts to visualize data, from a key seventeenth-century precursor--England's plague-driven initiative to register vital statistics--right up to the latest advances. In a highly readable, richly illustrated story of invention and inventor that mixes science and politics, intrigue and scandal, revolution and shopping, Howard Wainer validates Thoreau's observation that ci… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-691-13405-5
  • EAN: 9780691134055
  • Produktnummer: 2954829
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 210 S.
  • Masse: H25.4 cm x B20.3 cm x D1.1 cm 462 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 462

Über den Autor


Howard Wainer is Distinguished Research Scientist for the National Board of Medical Examiners and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of fifteen other books.

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