A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication

A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication
Howard Wainer, Michael Friendly
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25 Jun 2021 US
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9780674975231
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A comprehensive history of data visualization? its origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think about and solve problems. With complex information everywhere, graphics have become indispensable to our daily lives. Navigation apps show real-time, interactive traffic data. A color-coded map of exit polls details election balloting down to the county level. Charts communicate stock market trends, government spending, and the dangers of epidemics. A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication tells the story of how graphics left the exclusive confines of scientific research and became ubiquitous. As data visualization spread, it changed the way we think. Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer take us back to the beginnings of graphic communication in the mid-seventeenth century, when the Dutch cartographer Michael Florent van Langren created the first chart of statistical data, which showed estimates of the distance from Rome to Toledo. By 1786 William Playfair had invented the line graph and bar chart to explain trade imports and exports. In the nineteenth century, the ? golden age? of data display, graphics found new uses in tracking disease outbreaks and understanding social issues. Friendly and Wainer make the case that the explosion in graphical communication both reinforced and was advanced by a cognitive revolution: visual thinking. Across disciplines, people realized that information could be conveyed more effectively by visual displays than by words or tables of numbers. Through stories and illustrations, A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication details the 400-year evolution of an intellectual framework that has become essential to both science and society at large.
A masterly study of graphic innovations, their context, and their scientific use. This brilliant book, without equivalent, is an indispensable read. -- Gilles Palsky, coauthor of An Atlas of Geographical Wonders Friendly and Wainer are the Watson and Crick of statistical graphics, showing us the history of the DNA structure that is the code of life for innovative visualizations. -- Ben Shneiderman, founder of the Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland Data expertise is a fundamental prerequisite for success in our digital age. But exactly how, and when, have we learned to draw conclusions from data? For decades, Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer have been studying how data has informed decision-making, through visualization and statistical analysis. Replete with mesmerizing visual examples, this book is an eye-opening distillation of their research. -- Sandra Rendgen, author of History of Information Graphics Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer have given us a wonderful history of the dazzling field of data visualization. They bring new life to ancient death statistics and describe the artistic poetry used to display numbers. An intriguing story of how we have learned to communicate data of all types. -- Stephen M. Stigler, author of The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom Two of the most distinguished scholars of data visualization give us a glimpse of ancient attempts to quantify the world, before revealing the century-long revolution that led to the invention of modern statistics and many of the graphical methods we use today. I learned a lot from this book, and I think you will too. -- Alberto Cairo, author of How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information Friendly and Wainer demonstrate the amazing progress that has been made in data graphics over the past two hundred years. Understanding this history-where graphs came from and how they developed-will be valuable as we move forward. -- Andrew Gelman, coauthor of Regression and Other Stories
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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ISBN-13: 9780674975231
Published: 25 Jun 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 320

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