ABSTRACT
To function in modern society complex data must be absorbed and understood at a breakneck pace. The most efficient way to do this is through data-based graphics. This book is an exploration and celebration of graphical methods of data presentation.
Visual Revelations' principal purpose is to enlighten, inform, and amuse the reader regarding the shortcomings of common graphical practices; particularly how they can misinform while simultaneously providing models of wonderful graphics. There are many examples of the best graphic practice, graphs that go beyond conveying, facts, and structure to be able to carry emotion as well.
Aimed at an educated, lay audience, this volume benefits anyone who must either convey or receive quantitative information, including designers, statisticians, and people in the media.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |3 pages
Introduction
part |49 pages
Graphical Failures
chapter |36 pages
How to Display Data Badly
chapter |7 pages
Graphical Mysteries
part |30 pages
Graphical Triumphs
chapter |6 pages
Graphical Answers to Scientific Questions
chapter |6 pages
Three Graphic Memorials
chapter |6 pages
A Nobel Graph
chapter |4 pages
Todai Moto Kurashi *
chapter |6 pages
Picturing an L.A. Bus Schedule
part |40 pages
Graphical Forms
chapter |4 pages
Humble Pie
chapter |4 pages
Double Y-Axis Graphs
chapter |8 pages
Tabular Presentation
chapter |8 pages
A Rose by Another Name
chapter |8 pages
Trilinear Plots
chapter |6 pages
Implicit Graphs
part |15 pages
Using Graphical Methods
chapter |2 pages
Measuring Graphicacy
chapter |6 pages
Visual Aids When Comparing an Apple to the Stars *
part |19 pages
Improving Graphical Presentations