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Graphic discovery: a trout in the milk and other visual adventures

Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet they are a modern invention. This book is the first to comprehensively plot humankind's fascinating efforts to visual...

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Autor principal: Wainer, Howard
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Princeton University Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/1701418
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description Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet they are a modern invention. This book is the first to comprehensively plot humankind's fascinating efforts to visualize data, from a key seventeenth-century precursor--England's plague-driven initiative to register vital statistics--right up to the latest advances. In a highly readable, richly illustrated story of invention and inventor that mixes science and politics, intrigue and scandal, revolution and shopping, Ho
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spelling cern-17014182021-04-21T21:02:31Zhttp://cds.cern.ch/record/1701418engWainer, HowardGraphic discovery: a trout in the milk and other visual adventuresMathematical Physics and Mathematics Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet they are a modern invention. This book is the first to comprehensively plot humankind's fascinating efforts to visualize data, from a key seventeenth-century precursor--England's plague-driven initiative to register vital statistics--right up to the latest advances. In a highly readable, richly illustrated story of invention and inventor that mixes science and politics, intrigue and scandal, revolution and shopping, HoPrinceton University Pressoai:cds.cern.ch:17014182013
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Graphic discovery: a trout in the milk and other visual adventures
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