I: William Playfair and the origins of graphical display
Why playfair?
Who was playfair? / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer
William Playfair: a daring worthless fellow / Ian Spence and Howard Wainer
Scaling the heights (and widths)
A priestley view of international currency exchanges
Tom's veggies and the American way
The graphical inventions of Dubourg and Ferguson: two precursors to William Playfair
Winds across Europe: Francis Galton and the graphic discovery of weather patterns
II: Using graphical displays to understand the modern world
A graphical investigation of the scourge of Vietnam
Two mind-bending statistical paradoxes
Order in the court
No order in the court
Like a trout in the milk
Scaling the market
Sex, smoking, and life insurance: a graphical view
There they go again !
Sex and sports: how quickly are women gaining?
Clear thinking made visible: redesigning score reports for students
III: Graphical displays in the twenty-first century
John Wilder Tukey: the father of twenty-first-century graphical display
Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: I. Spinning and slicing
Graphical tools for the twenty-first century: II. Nearness and smoothing engines
A selection of anomalies
Dramatis personae.