Visualization analysis & design / Tamara Munzner ; illustrations by Eamonn Maguire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munzner, Tamara, author.

Contributor:

Maguire, Eamonn (Graphic artist), illustrator.

Series:

AK Peters visualization series

A K Peters visualization series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information visualization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ( xxiii, 404 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Other Title:

Visualization analysis and design

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, Florida : CRC Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Learn How to Design Effective Visualization SystemsVisualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices. The book features a unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for abstract data, scientific visualization techniques for spatial data, and visual analytics techniques for interweaving data transformation and analysis with interactive visual exploration. It emphasizes the careful validation of effectiveness and the consideration of function before form. The book bre

Contents:

Front Cover.

Contents.

Preface.

1. What's Vis, and Why Do It?

2. What: Data Abstraction.

3. Why: Task Abstraction.

4. Analysis: Four Levels for Validation.

5. Marks and Channels.

6. Rules of Thumb.

7. Arrange Tables.

8. Arrange Spatial Data.

9. Arrange Networks and Trees.

10. Map Color and Other Channels.

11. Manipulate View.

12. Facet into Multiple Views.

13. Reduce Items and Attributes.

14. Embed: Focus+Context.

15. Analysis Case Studies.

Figure Credits.

Bibliography

Notes:

"An A K Peters book."

"A K Peters Book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780429088902 (ebook)

9781466508910 (hbk.)

9781498707763

1498707769

9781466508934

1466508930

9780429088902

OCLC:

759916463