Visualize This The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics

Name: Visualize This The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
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ISBN: 9780470944882

ISBN-10: 0470944889

ISBN-13: 9780470944882

Edition: 2011

Authors: Nathan Yau

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Visualize This is a guide on how to visualize and tell stories with data, providing practical design tips complemented with step-by-step tutorials. It begins with a description of the huge growth of data and visualization in industry, news, and gov't and opportunities for those who tell stories with data. Logically it moves on to actual stories in data-statistical ones with trends and human stories. the technical part comes up quickly with how to gather, parse and format data with Python, R, Excel, Google docs, etc and details tools to visualize data-native graphics for the Web like ActionScript, Flash libraries, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML. Every chapter provides an example as well.…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Limited
Publication date: 7/8/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.156
Language: English



Introduction



Telling Stories with Data


More Than Numbers


What to Look For


Design


Wrapping Up



Handling Data


Gather Data


Formatting Data


Wrapping Up



Choosing Tools to Visualize Data


Out-of-the-Box Visualization


Programming


Illustration


Mapping


Survey Your Options


Wrapping Up



Visualizing Patterns over Time


What to Look for over Time


Discrete Points in Time


Continuous Data


Wrapping Up



Visualizing Proportions


What to Look for in Proportions


Parts of a Whole


Proportions over Time


Wrapping Up



Visualizing Relationships


What Relationships to Look For


Correlation


Distribution


Comparison


Wrapping Up



Spotting Differences


What to Look For


Companing across Multiple Variables


Reducing Dimensions


Searching for Outliers


Wrapping Up



Visualizing Spatial Relationships


What to Look For


Specific Locations


Regions


Over Space and Time


Wrapping Up



Designing with a Purpose


Prepare Yourself


Prepare Your Readers


Visual Cues


Good Visualization


Wrapping Up


Index