rbc@alice.UUCP (rbc) (06/29/85)
A new book on graphical data display, The Elements of Graphing Data by William S. Cleveland, has just been published. It can be gotten in hardcover or paperback from Wadsworth Advanced Books and Software, 555 Abrego St., Monterey, CA 93940. The book is relatively easy to read and is a selection for several of the Macmillan science and engineering book clubs, including the Library of Computer and Information Science. From the back cover...... The book is about graphing data in science and technology. It contains graphical methods and principles that are powerful tools for showing the structure of data. The material is useful for data analysis, when the analyst wants to study the data, and for data communication, when the analyst wants to communicate data to others. Many of the methods and principles in the book are new; many others are old but not widely known. The book contains many fascinating sets of data, drawn from many areas of science and technology, that are used to illustrate the methods and principles. Scientists, engineers, students, and others who study data will find that using the material in the four concise but thorough chapters raises substantially the effectiveness of their data analysis and communication.