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. William Playfair, who is not the namesake of the Playfair cipher, wrote several books that pioneered this practice. (15[4])A 1975 (15[1])book on this practice that advocates a small “lie factor” developed from its author’s (15[1])seminars with John Tukey. (15[1]-5[1])Leland Wilkinson’s (15[1])“grammar” of this practice (15[1])structures (15[1])a Hadley (*) Wickham package (10[1])that passes parameters to geom functions. (10[1])A book (10[1])on this practice by Edward Tufte (10[2])(“TUFF-tee”) praises (10[1])Pierre-Joseph (10[3])Minard’s account (10[1])of Napoleon’s (10[2])invasion (-5[1])of Russia. (10[3]-5[1])A Tidyverse (-5[1])R package (10[1])for this practice begins with the letters (10[1])“gg.” (10[6])For 10 points, name this practice of conveying information using tools like histograms and scatter plots. ■END■ (10[5])

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