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Activity Number: 253 - Reprise of ASA’s 2021 Statistical Computing and Graphics Award
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 9, 2022 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Section on Statistical Graphics
Abstract #320727
Title: Graphs as Poetry: C.J. Minard, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Great Migration
Author(s): Howard Wainer*
Companies: unaffiliated
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Visual displays of empirical information are too often thought to be just compact summaries that, at their best, can clarify a muddled situation. This is partially true, as far as it goes, but it omits the magic. We have long known that data visualization is an alchemist that can make good scientists great and transform great scientists into giants. In this talk we will see that sometimes, albeit too rarely, the combination of critical questions addressed by important data and illuminated by evocative displays can achieve a transcendent, and often wholly unexpected, result. At their best, visualizations can communicate emotions and feelings in addition to cold, hard facts.


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