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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... means . In those times many years before the discovery of bacteria , one fantastic theory speculated that cholera vaporously rose out of the burying grounds of plague victims from two centuries earlier . In 1886 the discovery of the ...
... means . In those times many years before the discovery of bacteria , one fantastic theory speculated that cholera vaporously rose out of the burying grounds of plague victims from two centuries earlier . In 1886 the discovery of the ...
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... means ; then step back and describe the general architecture of the table ; finally reinforce it all with a second particular , explaining what another number means.29 These two particulars can be selected to make a substantive point as ...
... means ; then step back and describe the general architecture of the table ; finally reinforce it all with a second particular , explaining what another number means.29 These two particulars can be selected to make a substantive point as ...
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... means " This O does not represent a sunspot , rather this O labels another O - like mark which does represent a sunspot . Description of this apparatus in the Latin original ( above ) breaks up the sequence , and may induce viewers to ...
... means " This O does not represent a sunspot , rather this O labels another O - like mark which does represent a sunspot . Description of this apparatus in the Latin original ( above ) breaks up the sequence , and may induce viewers to ...
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