Overview
- Illustrates the power of graphics with a tremendous range of examples *
- Exposes hiding data in the scale, the components of a junk chart, emphasising the trivial and other sorts of sophistry * Contains good rules for bringing elegance, grace and impact to a graphical display * Howard Wainer is a Principal Research Scientist at Educational Testing Service. and was awarded their Senior Scientist Award
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About this book
This extraordinary book provides a journey through the jungle of good and bad graphical devices used to illustrate and obfuscate data. The diversity of examples is tremendous: ranging from Napoleon's retreat from Moscow to the O-rings on the space shuttle and from mortalities in hospitals to the schedules of buses. The author's aim is to illustrate how effectively a well-chosen graphic can reveal in an instant the essential truth behind some data whilst a poorly designed representation can conceal an awful truth. As well as providing numerous examples of both, the author includes plenty of helpful ideas to make us all better producers and consumers of graphics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Visual Revelations
Book Subtitle: Graphical Tales of Fate and Deception from Napoleon Bonaparte to Ross Perot
Authors: Howard Wainer
Publisher: Copernicus New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Howard Wainer 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-7486-5Published: 06 October 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 180
Number of Illustrations: 14 illustrations in colour