Visual & Statistical Thinking
by Edward R. Tufte · first published 1997
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…[...] But NASA management made one catastrophic mistake: this was not that chart they should have been looking at." I think these statements are pretty misleading without some major caveats. Tufte ("Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions"; https://blogs.stockton.edu/hist4690/files/2012/06/Edward-Tuf...) writes: "Most accounts of the Challenger reproduce a scatterplot that apparently demonstrates…
on “The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring” ↗…too far out that they would have liked for this conversation to happen during the State of the Union, though that doesn't mean the white house ordered the launch. I read this in Edward Tufte's essay Visual and Statistical Thinking (http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/books_textb), which discusses how better information displays might have convinced NASA management to postpone the launch. It also appears as a chapter in his book Visual…
on “The result would be a catastrophe (1985)” ↗…O-ring failure, but that the data and findings were poorly communicated. This led to the decision to launch, the subsequent failure of the O-rings and loss of life. This essay appears in the booklet "Visual and Statistical Thinking"[0], among other publications, along with an other essay on how the source of cholera was traced to contaminated drinking water in 19th century London by John Snow. He plotted cholera cases on a map,…
on “The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion and the O-ring” ↗