Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and NarrativeVisual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative. Practical applications and examples include statistical graphics, charts for making important decisions in engineering and medicine, technical manuals, diagrams, design of computer interfaces and websites and on-line manuals, animations and scientific visualizations, techniques for talks, and design strategies for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentations, and computer screens. The use of visual evidence in deciding to launch the space shuttle Challenger is discussed in careful detail. Video snapshots show redesigns of a supercomputer animation of a thunderstorm. The book is designed and printed to the highest standards, with luscious color throughout and four built-in flaps for showing motion and before/after effects. |
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... Challenger ON January 28 , 1986 , the space shuttle Challenger exploded and seven astronauts died because two rubber O - rings leaked.22 These rings had lost their resiliency because the shuttle was launched on a very cold day . Ambient ...
... Challenger ON January 28 , 1986 , the space shuttle Challenger exploded and seven astronauts died because two rubber O - rings leaked.22 These rings had lost their resiliency because the shuttle was launched on a very cold day . Ambient ...
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... Challenger , the rocket engineers and managers needed a quick , smart analysis of evidence about the threat of cold to the O - rings , as well as an effective presentation of evidence in order to convince NASA officials not to launch ...
... Challenger , the rocket engineers and managers needed a quick , smart analysis of evidence about the threat of cold to the O - rings , as well as an effective presentation of evidence in order to convince NASA officials not to launch ...
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... Challenger ( SRM 25 ) forecast.33 These data are shown again at right . What a strange collation : the first 4 rockets were test motors that never left the ground . Missing are 92 % of the temperature data , for 5 of the launches with ...
... Challenger ( SRM 25 ) forecast.33 These data are shown again at right . What a strange collation : the first 4 rockets were test motors that never left the ground . Missing are 92 % of the temperature data , for 5 of the launches with ...
Contents
Images and Quantities | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 27 |
Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design | 55 |
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