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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... launch analysis would have revealed that this flight was at considerable risk.27 On the day before the launch of Challenger , the rocket engineers and managers needed a quick , smart analysis of evidence about the threat of cold to the ...
... launch analysis would have revealed that this flight was at considerable risk.27 On the day before the launch of Challenger , the rocket engineers and managers needed a quick , smart analysis of evidence about the threat of cold to the ...
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... launch , ” which was rejected , rightly implies that the Challenger could not be safely launched the next morning at 29 ° . Drawing a line at 53 ° , however , is a crudely empirical result based on a sample of size one . That anecdote ...
... launch , ” which was rejected , rightly implies that the Challenger could not be safely launched the next morning at 29 ° . Drawing a line at 53 ° , however , is a crudely empirical result based on a sample of size one . That anecdote ...
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... launch 12 SRM 15 SRM 22 127 8 26 ° -29 ° range of forecasted temperatures ( as of January 27 , 1986 ) for the launch of space shuttle Challenger on January 28 25 ° 30 ° 35 ° 40 ° 50 ° 55 ° 60 ° 45 ° 65 ° Temperature ( ° F ) of field ...
... launch 12 SRM 15 SRM 22 127 8 26 ° -29 ° range of forecasted temperatures ( as of January 27 , 1986 ) for the launch of space shuttle Challenger on January 28 25 ° 30 ° 35 ° 40 ° 50 ° 55 ° 60 ° 45 ° 65 ° Temperature ( ° F ) of field ...
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