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A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Cambridge, Ma : Harvard University Press, c2021Description: 308 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780674975231
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 001.4226 FRI
Online resources: Summary: Summary: Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiquitous in daily life. Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer detail the history of data visualization and argue that it has not only helped us solve problems, but it has also changed the way we think"-- Provided by publisher
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Michael Friendly is Professor of Psychology, founding chair of the Quantitative Methods area, and coordinator of the Statistical Consulting Service at York University. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Howard Wainer has been a columnist for the statistical magazine Chance since 1990. A fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Educational Research Association, he has been honored with the Psychometric Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2021 ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Award.

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Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiquitous in daily life. Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer detail the history of data visualization and argue that it has not only helped us solve problems, but it has also changed the way we think"-- Provided by publisher