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Visual Revelations: The Birth of Statistical Graphics and Their European Childhood: On the historical development of W.E.B. Du Bois's graphical narrative of a people

Further Reading

  • Berlinski, D. 1995. A Tour of the Calculus. New York: Pantheon Books.
  • Cook, R., and Wainer, H. 2016. Joseph Fletcher, thematic maps, slavery and the worst places to live in the UK and the US, in Visible Numbers, the History of Statistical Graphics, C. Kostelnick and M. Kimball (eds.), pp.83–106. Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
  • Friendly, M. 2007. A.-M. Guerry's Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for multivariable spatial analysis. Statistical Science, 22(3), pp.368–399.
  • Friendly, M., Valero-Mora, P., and Ulargui, J.I. 2010. The first (known) statistical graph: Michael Florent van Langren and the “Secret” of Longitude. The American Statistician 64(2), pp.185–191.
  • Friendly, M., and Wainer, H. (in preparation). The Origin of Graphic Species. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Gannett, H. 1898. Statistical Atlas of the United States: Based on the Results of the 11th Census. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office.
  • Munroe, J. P. 1923. A Life of Francis Amasa Walker. New York, N. Y.: Henry Holt & Company.
  • Playfair, W. 1801/2007. The Commercial and Political Atlas, Representing, by means of Stained Copper-Plate Charts, The Progress of the Commerce, Revenues, Expenditure, and Debts of England, during the whole of the Eighteenth Century (edited and introduced by Howard Wainer and Ian Spence). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Playfair, W. 1801/2007. The Statistical Breviary; Shewing on a Principle entirely new, the resources of every state and kingdom in Europe; illustrated with Stained Copper-Plate Charts, representing the physical powers of each distinct nation with ease and perspicuity by William Playfair (edited and introduced by Howard Wainer and Ian Spence). New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Wainer, H. 1997. Tom's veggies and the American way. CHANCE 10(3), pp.40–42.
  • Wainer, H. 2005. Graphic Discovery: A Trout in the Milk and Other Visual Adventures. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Wainer, H. 2012. Moral statistics and the Thematic Maps of Joseph Fletcher. CHANCE 25(1), pp.43–47.
  • Wainer, H. 2014. Medical Illuminations: Using Evidence, Visualization & Statistical thinking to Improve Healthcare. London: Oxford University Press.

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