| Description |
xvi, 192 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-184) and index. |
| Contents |
I: William Playfair and the origins of graphical display -- Why playfair? -- Who was playfair? / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- William Playfair: a daring worthless fellow / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer -- Scaling the heights (and widths) -- A priestley view of international currency exchanges -- Tom's veggies and the American way -- The graphical inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: two precursors to William Playfair -- Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the graphic discovery of weather patterns -- II: Using graphical displays to understand the modern world -- A graphical investigation of the scourge of Vietnam -- Two mind-bending statistical paradoxes -- Order in the court -- No order in the court -- Like a trout in the milk -- Scaling the market -- Sex, smoking, and life insurance: a graphical view -- There they go again! -- Sex and sports: how quickly are women gaining? -- Clear thinking made visible: redesigning score reports for students -- III: Graphical displays in the twenty-first century -- John Wilder Tukey: the father of twenty-first-century graphical display -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: I. Spinning and slicing -- Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: II. Nearness and smoothing engines -- Epilogue: a selection of anomalies -- Conclusion -- Dramatis personae. |
| Subject |
Playfair, William, 1759-1823.
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Mathematical statistics -- Graphic methods.
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Mathematical statistics -- History -- 18th century.
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Data Display -- history.
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Statistics as Topic.
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Computer Graphics.
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| ISBN |
0691103011 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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