Graphic Discovery
Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet they are a modern invention. This book is the first to comprehensively plot humankind''s fascinating efforts to visualize data, from a key seventeenth-century precursor--England''s plague-driven initiative to register vital...
Good graphs make complex problems clear. From the weather forecast to the Dow Jones average, graphs are so ubiquitous today that it is hard to imagine a world without them. Yet they are a modern invention. This book is the first to comprehensively plot humankind''s fascinating efforts to visualize data, from a key seventeenth-century precursor--England''s plague-driven initiative to register vital...
