August 2012
Beginner
384 pages
8h 28m
English
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Footnotes
Introduction: Infographics and Visualization
1 Terence W. Deacon, The Symbolic Species: The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998).
2 Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, Inc., 1994). Pinker builds on Noam Chomsky’s hypothesis of an innate universal grammar.
3 Stuart Card, Jock Mackinlay and Ben Shneiderman, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (London: Academic Press, 1999).
4 Rudolf Arnheim, Visual Thinking (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969).
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1 William Easterly, “A High-Five for the Invisible Hand,” The New York Times, June 11, 2010.
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