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001 53926612
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100 1 $aWainer, Howard.
245 10 $aGraphic discovery :$ba trout in the milk and other visual adventures /$cHoward Wainer.
260 $aPrinceton, NJ :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2005.
300 $axvi, 192 p. :$bill. ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [177]-184) and index.
505 0 $aI: 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 -- A selection of anomalies -- Dramatis personae.
600 10 $aPlayfair, William,$d1759-1823.
650 0 $aMathematical statistics$xGraphic methods.
650 0 $aMathematical statistics$xHistory$y18th century.
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