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Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary (Hardcover)
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Playfair's Commercial and Political Atlas and Statistical Breviary (Hardcover)
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A scientific revolution began at the end of the 18th century with
the creation and popularization of the graphic display of data by
Scottish inventor William Playfair, who introduced the line graph,
bar chart, and pie chart into statistics. His remarkable Atlas
demonstrated how much could be learned if one plotted data
graphically and looked for suggestive patterns to provide evidence
for pursuing research. In the Statistical Breviary, Playfair
invented the pie chart and expanded upon this concept to facilitate
the comparison of the resources of European countries. Playfair's
work has great relevance to contemporary science, but finding
copies of his original versions is very difficult. This re-issuance
of two of his classic works, with new explanatory material, allows
access to his wisdom for the first time in two centuries. In full
color exactly as Playfair hand-colored the original, this volume
includes exact duplicates of the third edition of his classic Atlas
as well as the Statistical Breviary. An additional feature is the
inclusion of annotations and an extensive biography of the
remarkable inventor. Howard Wainer is Distinquished Research
Scientist at the National Board of Examiners and Adjunct Professor
of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania. He has a Ph.D. in Psychometrics from Princeton
University. Professor Wainer is the author of fifteen previous
books, most recently, Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and
Other Visual Adventures (2005).
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