Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and NarrativeVisual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative is about pictures of verbs, the representation of mechanism and motion, process and dynamics, causes and effects, explanation and narrative. Practical applications and examples include statistical graphics, charts for making important decisions in engineering and medicine, technical manuals, diagrams, design of computer interfaces and websites and on-line manuals, animations and scientific visualizations, techniques for talks, and design strategies for enhancing the rate of information transfer in print, presentations, and computer screens. The use of visual evidence in deciding to launch the space shuttle Challenger is discussed in careful detail. Video snapshots show redesigns of a supercomputer animation of a thunderstorm. The book is designed and printed to the highest standards, with luscious color throughout and four built-in flaps for showing motion and before/after effects. |
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... serif , capital letters minimize distinctions among letters and words , contributing to the difficulty of reading . " Where scrutiny is damaging , scrutiny is diverted , " explains Magic by Misdirection . 19 Such masking of content ...
... serif , capital letters minimize distinctions among letters and words , contributing to the difficulty of reading . " Where scrutiny is damaging , scrutiny is diverted , " explains Magic by Misdirection . 19 Such masking of content ...
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... serif 7_______left Foot - serif 8______right Foot - serif R 13 7 1 11 10 8 14__ Ascender 15_Spur 16_Ear 17_Lobe 18_Link 19_Arm 20_Loop 22_Thick 12 11 21_Thin Oblique 23_Crossbar 99 99 24_Connective 13 3 14 9____Dent 10___ Fillet 11 ...
... serif 7_______left Foot - serif 8______right Foot - serif R 13 7 1 11 10 8 14__ Ascender 15_Spur 16_Ear 17_Lobe 18_Link 19_Arm 20_Loop 22_Thick 12 11 21_Thin Oblique 23_Crossbar 99 99 24_Connective 13 3 14 9____Dent 10___ Fillet 11 ...
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... serif , Yearbook then stamped - embossed serif , Years and , finally , a quirky system font - with an oversized x - height ( presumably to im- prove legibility on the screen ) resulting in cramped ascenders and descenders as well as a ...
... serif , Yearbook then stamped - embossed serif , Years and , finally , a quirky system font - with an oversized x - height ( presumably to im- prove legibility on the screen ) resulting in cramped ascenders and descenders as well as a ...
Contents
Images and Quantities | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 27 |
Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design | 55 |
Copyright | |
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Ad Reinhardt Albrecht Dürer analysis Anatomy of Melancholy audience blow-by Broad Street pump Catich cause Center for Supercomputing chart cholera color comparisons computer screen confections conjuring contrast cosmonauts deaths from cholera depict described diagrams disinformation design display drawing Edward Tufte epidemic erosion evidence example explain Feynman field joint flap flight Foureye butterflyfish Georgi Grechko glass graph Grechko grid hand History of O-Ring Humphry Repton illustration information design interface John Snow launch the space letters Leviathan lines London magic magician method multiple images NASA O-ring O-ring damage O-Ring Temp Painting parallel PCSSCA perspective photograph pre-launch PRIMARY O-RING quantitative redesign Redrawn reveal Richard Feynman rockets scale Science sequence serif shown shows smallest effective difference Snow's space shuttle Challenger spatial statistical graphics story sunspots Supercomputing Applications temperature Thiokol time-series trick two-dimensional viewers visual words York Отдых