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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... reasoning about the displays of evidence involved in the disastrous decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger ; magicians for centuries contriving illusions about cause and effect and then in turn explaining techniques of illusion ...
... reasoning about the displays of evidence involved in the disastrous decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger ; magicians for centuries contriving illusions about cause and effect and then in turn explaining techniques of illusion ...
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... reasoning about evidence . up A B Wrong Order The fatal flaw is the ordering of the data . Shown as a time - series , the rockets are sequenced by date of launching - from the first pair at upper left SRM to the last pair at lower right ...
... reasoning about evidence . up A B Wrong Order The fatal flaw is the ordering of the data . Shown as a time - series , the rockets are sequenced by date of launching - from the first pair at upper left SRM to the last pair at lower right ...
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... reasoning must correspond to scientific reasoning . Clear and precise seeing becomes as one with clear and precise thinking . For example , the scientific principle , make controlled comparisons , also guides the construction of data ...
... reasoning must correspond to scientific reasoning . Clear and precise seeing becomes as one with clear and precise thinking . For example , the scientific principle , make controlled comparisons , also guides the construction of data ...
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