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Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display
Howard Wainer
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Description for Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display
Paperback. Explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous or incomplete. This work takes readers on an extraordinary graphical adventure, revealing how the visual communication of data offers answers to vexing questions yet also highlights the measure of uncertainty in almost everything we do. Num Pages: 264 pages, 11 color illus. 14 halftones. 81 line illus. 12 tables. BIC Classification: GPF; PBT; PDZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 180 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
502g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691152677
SKU
V9780691152677
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About Howard Wainer
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).
Reviews for Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display
"In Picturing the Uncertain World, Howard Wainer approaches this problem through stories, and every one is a gem. This is territory that has long been dominated by the books of Edward Tufte ... but Wainer's approach is refreshingly different. He has himself been involved in many policy debates and understands well that the same information can be interpreted in a ... Read more