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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... complex ideas or data , use the method of PGP : Particular General Particular For example , to help your audience understand a multivariate table of data , briefly introduce the table and point to a particular number and say what it ...
... complex ideas or data , use the method of PGP : Particular General Particular For example , to help your audience understand a multivariate table of data , briefly introduce the table and point to a particular number and say what it ...
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... complex shapes . Edward Catich provides evidence ( above ) that the Roman letters of the Trajan Inscrip- tion varied from occurrence to occurrence , indicating that uniform stencils were not used to reproduce the letters but rather that ...
... complex shapes . Edward Catich provides evidence ( above ) that the Roman letters of the Trajan Inscrip- tion varied from occurrence to occurrence , indicating that uniform stencils were not used to reproduce the letters but rather that ...
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... complex texts , although the images may contribute fresh insights , and make visible what is textually invisible , obscure , or beyond words : If some illustrations of a text are extreme reductions of a complex narrative— a mere emblem ...
... complex texts , although the images may contribute fresh insights , and make visible what is textually invisible , obscure , or beyond words : If some illustrations of a text are extreme reductions of a complex narrative— a mere emblem ...
Contents
Images and Quantities | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 27 |
Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design | 55 |
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