Description: Statistical graphing was born in the seventeenth century as a scientific tool, but it quickly escaped all disciplinary bounds. Today graphics are ubiquitous in daily life. Michael Friendly and Howard Wainer detail the history of data visualization and argue that it has not only helped us solve problems, but it has also changed the way we think.
Brief description: Howard Wainer has been a columnist for the statistical magazine Chance since 1990. A fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Educational Research Association, he has been honored with the Psychometric Society's Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2021 ASA Statistical Computing and Graphics Award.
Review Quotes: The invention of graphs and charts was a much quieter affair than that of the telescope, but these tools have done just as much to change how and what we see.--Hannah Fry "New Yorker" (6/21/2021 12:00:00 AM)