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Data visualization : a practical introduction / Kieran Healy.
Holman Biotech Commons QA76.9.I52 H43 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Healy, Kieran Joseph, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information visualization.
- R (Computer program language).
- Visual analytics.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color), charts ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK : Princeton University Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest and effective way. Data visualization builds the reader's expertise in ggplot2, a versatile visualization library for the R programming language ...."--Page 4 of cover.
- Contents:
- Look at data
- Get started
- Make a plot
- Show the right numbers
- Graph tables, add labels, make notes
- Work with models
- Draw maps
- Refine your plots.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rudolph G. Schmieder Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780691181615
- 0691181616
- 9780691181622
- 0691181624
- OCLC:
- 1032356534
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