"Getting information from a table is like extracting sunbeams from a cucumber" (Farquhar and Farquhar).
An edition of Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures
(2004)
Graphic discovery
a trout in the milk and other visual adventures
by Howard Wainer
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"In an illustrated story of invention and inventor that mixes science and politics, intrigue and scandal, revolution and shopping, Howard Wainer validates Thoreau's observation that circumstantial evidence can be quite convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk." "The story really begins with the eighteenth-century origins of the art, logic, and methods of data display, which emerged, full-grown, in William Playfair's landmark 1786 trade atlas of England and Wales. The remarkable Scot singlehandedly popularized the atheoretical plotting of data to reveal suggestive patterns - an achievement that foretold the graphic explosion of the nineteenth century, with atlases published across the observational sciences as the language of science moved from words to pictures."--Jacket.
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Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures
2013, Princeton University Press
in English
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Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures
2013, Princeton University Press
in English
1400849276 9781400849277
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Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures
October 13, 2007, Princeton University Press
Paperback
in English
0691134057 9780691134055
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Graphic discovery: a trout in the milk and other visual adventures
2005, Princeton University Press
in English
0691103011 9780691103013
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Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures
October 26, 2004, Princeton University Press
Hardcover
in English
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