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Visualize this : the FlowingData guide to design, visualization, and statistics / Nathan Yau.
LIBRA QA276.3 .Y18 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yau, Nathan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Statistics--Graphic methods--Data processing.
- Statistics.
- Graphic methods--Computer programs.
- Graphic methods.
- FlowingData.
- Statistics--Graphic methods.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 358 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- FlowingData guide to design, visualization, and statistics
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Pub., [2011]
- Summary:
- Our world is awash in data. To mean anything, it must be presented in a way that enables us to interpret, analyze, and apply the information. One of the best ways to do that is visually.
- Nathan Yau is a pioneer of this innovative approach. In this book, he offers you dozens of ideas for telling your story with data presented in creative, visual ways. Open the book, open your mind, and discover an almost endless variety of ways to give your data new dimensions.
- Learn to present data with visual representations that allow your audience to see the unexpected
- Find the stories your data can tell
- Explore different data sources and determine effective formats for presentation
- Experiment with and compare different visualization tools
- Look for trends and patterns in your data and select appropriate ways to chart them
- Establish clear goals to guide your visualizations
- Visit the companion web site at www.wiley.com/go/visualizethis for code samples, data files you can download and interactive examples to show you how visualization works Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Telling Stories with Data 1
- More Than Numbers 2
- What to Look For 8
- Design 13
- Wrapping Up 20
- 2 Handling Data 21
- Gather Data 22
- Formatting Data 38
- Wrapping Up 52
- 3 Choosing Tools to Visualize Data 53
- Out-of-the-Box Visualization 54
- Programming 62
- Illustration 76
- Mapping 80
- Survey Your Options 88
- Wrapping Up 89
- 4 Visualizing Patterns over Time 91
- What to Look for over Time 92
- Discrete Points in Time 93
- Continuous Data 118
- Wrapping Up 132
- 5 Visualizing Proportions 135
- What to Look for in Proportions 136
- Parts of a Whole 136
- Proportions over Time 161
- Wrapping Up 178
- 6 Visualizing Relationships 179
- What Relationships to Look For 180
- Correlation 180
- Distribution 200
- Comparison 213
- Wrapping Up 226
- 7 Spotting Differences 227
- What to Look For 228
- Companing across Multiple Variables 228
- Reducing Dimensions 258
- Searching for Outliers 265
- Wrapping Up 269
- 8 Visualizing Spatial Relationships 271
- What to Look For 272
- Specific Locations 272
- Regions 285
- Over Space and Time 302
- Wrapping Up 325
- 9 Designing with a Purpose 327
- Prepare Yourself 328
- Prepare Your Readers 330
- Visual Cues 334
- Good Visualization 340
- Wrapping Up 341.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780470944882
- 0470944889
- 9781118140246
- 1118140249
- 9781118140260
- 1118140265
- 9781118140253
- 1118140257
- OCLC:
- 670479801
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