One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005 "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 ... Read moreDavid 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."
Linda 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 Show Less