The cookbook

The 1446 book ends its explanations with a list: ninety-four everyday words, written out in the new letters. Eagle, ice, brook, unripe rice. Not rules, but usage: proof that the system could write ordinary life.

This part is that list. It is organized the way questions actually arrive, by the shape of your data and the thing you want to know, never by chart name. You will not find a chapter called “histograms”; you will find how is a measurement distributed?, and the sentence that answers it. (If you already know the chart’s name, the chart names appendix translates it into a sentence.)

Every recipe has the same shape: the question, the sentence that answers it, the plot, and a line or two on why it works. Most then show what is one atom away, and that is the real lesson. A cookbook of finished charts teaches you charts. This one teaches you that the recipes were never separate: swap one atom and you have the next one.

The recipes use only the cast of tables from the Preface, and only atoms taught in Parts I to III. Most link back to the chapter that owns their pieces.