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Cholera broke out in the Broad Street area of central London on the evening of
August 31, 1854. John Snow, who had investigated earlier epidemics, suspected
that the water from a community pump- well at Broad and Cambridge Streets was
...
Cholera broke out in the Broad Street area of central London on the evening of
August 31, 1854. John Snow, who had investigated earlier epidemics, suspected
that the water from a community pump- well at Broad and Cambridge Streets was
...
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Snow's report is one of careful description and precise logic: Dr. Fraser also first
called my attention to the following circumstances, which are perhaps the most
conclusive of all in proving the connexion between the Broad Street pump and
the ...
Snow's report is one of careful description and precise logic: Dr. Fraser also first
called my attention to the following circumstances, which are perhaps the most
conclusive of all in proving the connexion between the Broad Street pump and
the ...
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140- 120 100 80 60-1 40 20 Deaths from cholera, each day during the epidemic
Handle removed from Broad Street pump, September 8, 1854 / 20 22 24 26 28
30 1 I I I I I I , □ 1 I I T 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 -f-f- August September ...
140- 120 100 80 60-1 40 20 Deaths from cholera, each day during the epidemic
Handle removed from Broad Street pump, September 8, 1854 / 20 22 24 26 28
30 1 I I I I I I , □ 1 I I T 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 -f-f- August September ...
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Contents
Images and Quantities | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 55 |
The Smallest Effective Difference | 73 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative |
| Author | Edward R. Tufte |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Graphics Press, 1997 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 6 Jan 2011 |
| Length | 156 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / Design / General Art / Graphic Arts Computers / Computer Graphics / General Pattern perception Visual perception |
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