In his entertaining and informative book "Graphic Discovery,"
Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make
complex problems clear. Now he's back with "Picturing the Uncertain
World," a book that explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide
us when the information we have is ambiguous or incomplete. Using a
visually diverse sampling of graphical display, from heartrending
autobiographical displays of genocide in the Kovno ghetto to the
"Pie Chart of Mystery" in a "New Yorker" cartoon, Wainer
illustrates the many ways graphs can be used--and misused--as we
try to make sense of an uncertain world.
"Picturing the Uncertain World" takes readers on an
extraordinary graphical adventure, revealing how the visual
communication of data offers answers to vexing questions yet also
highlights the measure of uncertainty in almost everything we do.
Are cancer rates higher or lower in rural communities? How can you
know how much money to sock away for retirement when you don't know
when you'll die? And where exactly did nineteenth-century novelists
get their ideas? These are some of the fascinating questions Wainer
invites readers to consider. Along the way he traces the origins
and development of graphical display, from William Playfair, who
pioneered the use of graphs in the eighteenth century, to instances
today where the public has been misled through poorly designed
graphs.
We live in a world full of uncertainty, yet it is within our
grasp to take its measure. Read "Picturing the Uncertain World" and
learn how.
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