Title: Visible numbers : essays on the history of statistical graphics /
Authors: Kimball, Miles A.,; Kostelnick, Charles
Year: 2016
Subjects: Mathematical statistics Graphic methods.; Statistics Graphic methods; Charts, diagrams, etc.; Visualization Technique.; Information visualization.; Charts, diagrams, etc.; Information visualization; Mathematical statistics Graphic methods; Statistics Graphic methods; Visualization Technique
Contents: Machine generated contents note: pt. I VISUALIZING BODIES: HEALTH, DISEASE, EVOLUTION -- 1.Visualizing Evolution and Development: The Rise of Geometric Morphometries / Alan G. Gross -- 2.Florence Nightingale's Statistical Table for Hospitals: A Work of Utility and Art / Lee E. Brasseur -- 3.Visualizing Public Health Risks: Graphical Representations of Smallpox in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries / Rebecca E. Burnett -- pt. II VISUALIZING NATIONS: MORALITY, WAR, NATIONALISM -- 4.Joseph Fletcher, Thematic Maps, Slavery, and the Worst Places to Live in the U.K. and the U.S. / Howard Wainer -- 5.Innovation and Inertia in Atmospheric and Census Cartography in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America / Mark Monmonier -- 6.Mountains of Wealth, Rivers of Commerce: Michael G. Mulhall's Graphics and the Imperial Gaze / Miles A. Kimball -- 7."A scheme of cross-roads, orderly and mad": British Trench Maps of the First World War / Marguerite Helmers -- pt. III EXAMINING VISIBLE NUMBERS: FORMS, METHODS, HISTORIOGRAPHIES -- 8.Mosaics, Culture, and Rhetorical Resiliency: The Convoluted Genealogy of a Data Display Genre / Charles Kostelnick -- 9.The Twentieth-Century Computer Graphics Revolution in Statistics / Dianne Cook -- 10.The Milestones Project: A Database for the History of Data Visualization / Derek Harnanansingh -- 11.Annotated Bibliography of Scholarship on the History of Data Graphics / Kevin Van Winkle.