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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... shuttle consists of an orbiter ( which carries the crew and has power- ful engines in the back ) , a large liquid - fuel tank for the orbiter engines , and 2 solid - fuel booster rockets mounted on the sides of the central tank ...
... shuttle consists of an orbiter ( which carries the crew and has power- ful engines in the back ) , a large liquid - fuel tank for the orbiter engines , and 2 solid - fuel booster rockets mounted on the sides of the central tank ...
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... Shuttle Challenger ON January 28 , 1986 , the space shuttle Challenger exploded and seven astronauts died because two rubber O - rings leaked.22 These rings had lost their resiliency because the shuttle was launched on a very cold day ...
... Shuttle Challenger ON January 28 , 1986 , the space shuttle Challenger exploded and seven astronauts died because two rubber O - rings leaked.22 These rings had lost their resiliency because the shuttle was launched on a very cold day ...
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... shuttle with this blunt assessment : " For a successful technology , reality must take precedence over public relations , for Nature cannot be fooled . " 50 In our cases reported here , the inferences made from the data faced exacting ...
... shuttle with this blunt assessment : " For a successful technology , reality must take precedence over public relations , for Nature cannot be fooled . " 50 In our cases reported here , the inferences made from the data faced exacting ...
Contents
Images and Quantities | 13 |
Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions | 27 |
Pictorial Instructions and Disinformation Design | 55 |
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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