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In his entertaining and informative book __Graphic Discovery__, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear. Now he's back with __Picturing the Uncertain World__, a book that explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous or incomplete. Using a visually diverse sampling of graphical display, from heartrending autobiographical displays of genocide in the Kovno ghetto to the "Pie Chart of Mystery" in a __New Yorker__ cartoon, Wainer illustrates the many ways graphs can be used--and misused--as we try to make sense of an uncertain world. __Picturing the Uncertain World__ takes readers on an extraordinary graphical adventure, revealing how the visual communication of data offers answers to vexing questions yet also highlights the measure of uncertainty in almost everything we do. Are cancer rates higher or lower in rural communities? How can you know how much money to sock away for retirement when you don't know when you'll die? And where exactly did nineteenth-century novelists get their ideas? These are some of the fascinating questions Wainer invites readers to consider. Along the way he traces the

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Author

Howard Wainer

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691137599

Category

science

Subjects

Mathematics, Computer Science, Fiction

Rating

3.52 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14