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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... idea that cholera was transmitted by impure water . Snow's explanation replaced previously held beliefs that cholera spread through the air or by some other means . In those times many years before the discovery of bacteria , one ...
... idea that cholera was transmitted by impure water . Snow's explanation replaced previously held beliefs that cholera spread through the air or by some other means . In those times many years before the discovery of bacteria , one ...
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... idea of minimal contrasts . Based on universal ideas of figure - ground , large - motion - covers - small - motion , hierarchical layering , and content- driven design , the strategy of the smallest effective difference applies to all ...
... idea of minimal contrasts . Based on universal ideas of figure - ground , large - motion - covers - small - motion , hierarchical layering , and content- driven design , the strategy of the smallest effective difference applies to all ...
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... idea , The Ultimate Designer is a terribly wrong guess . In contrast , The Constructor combines a richness of ideas with a complex analytic design that is thoroughly understandable . The limits of confections arise from thinness of ...
... idea , The Ultimate Designer is a terribly wrong guess . In contrast , The Constructor combines a richness of ideas with a complex analytic design that is thoroughly understandable . The limits of confections arise from thinness of ...
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