Picturing the Uncertain World: How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty Through Graphical Display

In his entertaining and informative book Graphic Discovery, Howard Wainer unlocked the power of graphical display to make complex problems clear. Now hes back with Picturing the Uncertain World, a book that explores how graphs can serve as maps to guide us when the information we have is ambiguous or incomplete. Using a visually diverse sampling of graphical display, from heartrending autobiographical displays of genocide in the Kovno ghetto to the Pie Chart of Mystery in a New Yorker cartoon, Wainer illustrates the many ways graphs can be used-and misused-as we try to make sense of an uncertain world.