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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... deaths had taken place within a short distance of the pump . There were only ten deaths in houses situated decidedly nearer to another street pump . In five of these cases the families of the deceased persons informed me that they ...
... deaths had taken place within a short distance of the pump . There were only ten deaths in houses situated decidedly nearer to another street pump . In five of these cases the families of the deceased persons informed me that they ...
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... deaths show several apparently contradictory instances , a number of deaths from cholera with no obvious link to the Broad Street pump . And yet ... map , In some of the instances , where the deaths are scattered a little further from ...
... deaths show several apparently contradictory instances , a number of deaths from cholera with no obvious link to the Broad Street pump . And yet ... map , In some of the instances , where the deaths are scattered a little further from ...
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... deaths from cholera , with its smooth decline in deaths unchanged by the removal of the pump - handle . When the daily data are added into weekly intervals , however , a different picture emerges : the removal had the apparent ...
... deaths from cholera , with its smooth decline in deaths unchanged by the removal of the pump - handle . When the daily data are added into weekly intervals , however , a different picture emerges : the removal had the apparent ...
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