Packet 3: Tossup 18

A 1997 book claims that Thiokol’s poor attempts at this practice the day before the Challenger launch led NASA to ignore the link between temperature and O-ring leakage. Before his spying activities, William Playfair wrote several books that pioneered this practice. (-5[1])A 1975 (-5[1])book on this practice that advocates a “lie factor” of one developed from its author’s seminars with John Tukey. Leland Wilkinson’s “grammar” of this practice structures a Hadley (*) Wickham package that passes parameters to geom functions. A book on this practice by Edward Tufte (“TUFF-tee”) praises Pierre-Joseph Minard’s account of Napoleon’s invasion of Russia. A Tidyverse R package for this practice begins with the letters (10[1])“gg.” For 10 points, (10[1])name this practice of conveying quantitative (10[1])information using tools like histograms and scatter plots. ■END■ (10[2])

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