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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... pre - launch analysis would have revealed that this flight was at considerable risk.27 On the day before the launch of Challenger , the rocket engineers and managers needed a quick , smart analysis of evidence about the threat of cold ...
... pre - launch analysis would have revealed that this flight was at considerable risk.27 On the day before the launch of Challenger , the rocket engineers and managers needed a quick , smart analysis of evidence about the threat of cold ...
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... pre - launch debate . This graph depicts only launches with O - ring damage and their temperatures , omitting all damage- free launches ( an absence of data points on the line of zero incidents of damage ) : 3 STS 51 - C Ew O - Ring ...
... pre - launch debate . This graph depicts only launches with O - ring damage and their temperatures , omitting all damage- free launches ( an absence of data points on the line of zero incidents of damage ) : 3 STS 51 - C Ew O - Ring ...
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... pre - launch analysis of the evidence . That failure was a lack of control , a lack of comparison.48 The 13 pre - launch charts , like the one - glass experiment , examine only a few instances of O - ring problems and not the causes of ...
... pre - launch analysis of the evidence . That failure was a lack of control , a lack of comparison.48 The 13 pre - launch charts , like the one - glass experiment , examine only a few instances of O - ring problems and not the causes of ...
Contents
Contents | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 27 |
Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design | 55 |
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