Picturing the Uncertain World (eBook)

How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty through Graphical Display

Howard Wainer (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2021
264 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3289-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;Pie Chart of Mystery"e; 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 the Uncertain World 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. Are cancer rates higher or lower in rural communities? How can you know how much money to sock away for retirement when you don't know when you'll die? And where exactly did nineteenth-century novelists get their ideas? These are some of the fascinating questions Wainer invites readers to consider. Along the way he traces the origins and development of graphical display, from William Playfair, who pioneered the use of graphs in the eighteenth century, to instances today where the public has been misled through poorly designed graphs. We live in a world full of uncertainty, yet it is within our grasp to take its measure. Read Picturing the Uncertain World and learn how.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 11 color illus. 14 halftones. 81 line illus. 12 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Mathematische Spiele und Unterhaltung
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: Accelerated Life Testing • Accuracy and precision • Addition • Advertising • Al Gore • algorithms • Almost surely • Ältestenrat • American Psychological Association • American Statistical Association • aphorism • Approximation • Asymptotes • Bar chart • bar charts • Bertillonage • Bertillon, Alphonse • Big O notation • Binomial Distribution • Butterflies • Calculation • Camemberts • Cancer Research • carcinogenic effects • Carnegie Corporation • cartographers • Cartography • Ceteris paribus • Charles Joseph Minard • Clock face • Correlation and dependence • Coxcomb • danger function • data set • degrees of freedom • Disability • distributions binomial • earthquakes • Educational Testing Service • Empirical distribution function • empirical functions • error • Error bar • Errors and residuals • Error Term • estimation • Ethanol • Expense • Explanation • Exploratory data analysis • Extrapolation • final solution • Finding • Florence Nightingale • flow map • fourth grade • Francis Galton • Game Theory • Grader • Gratz v Bollinger • Health Economics • Hereditary Genius (Galton) • Hispanics • Holmes, Sherlock • Household income • Idiot • ignorance • Illustration • Immigrants • Imputation (statistics) • income • inference • Intelligence • Jacques Bertin • Jews • Laboratoire Graphique • leptokurtic distributions • Likelihood Function • linear regression • line labels • logarithm • logarithms • Mathematics • Measurement • Medicine • Mennonites • Methodology • Multiple comparisons problem • Napoleon • National Assessment of Educational Progress • National Center for Education Statistics • Nightingale Rose • Nobel prize • Normal distribution • Nungester, Ron • Olympics • Open Society Institute • ORDER BY • percentage • percentile • Pew Research Center • pie chart • Politics • Prediction • prescription drug • Probability • Quantity • Quantum Theory • Railways • raw material • receipt • Recession • Regression Analysis • Requirement • result • salary • SAT • saving • Scientist • square root • standard deviation • standard error • Standardization • standardized test • Statistic • Statistical hypothesis testing • statistical significance • statistician • Statistics • Suggestion • Test (assessment) • Test score • The New York Times • Thought • Time Series • Type I and type II errors • Uncertainty • Understanding • Unemployment • Variance • Vote Counting • Voting • Wealth • William Playfair • Wired (website) • World War II • X chromosome • year
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3289-6 / 1400832896
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3289-7 / 9781400832897