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In keeping with my theme on the importance of presenting data in a relational format, David McCandless at Information is Beautiful provides an excellent infographic which puts the risks of taking the HPV vaccine into proper context (based on actual data):
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Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: | data visualization, infographic, relational data
Fiction
Quicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)
Non-fiction
The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value
The Numbers Game
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception
The Rational Optimist
The Quiet American
How Doctors Think
The Wisdom of Whores
Switch
Operation Mincemeat: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Victory
