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Visualize this : the FlowingData guide to design, visualization, and statistics / Nathan Yau

Author
Yau, Nathan
Additional Titles
FlowingData guide to design, visualization, and statistics
Published
Indianapolis, Ind. : Wiley Pub., [2011]
Copyright Date
©2011
Physical Description
xxvi, 358 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Telling Stories with Data -- More Than Numbers -- What to Look For -- Design -- Wrapping Up -- 2.Handling Data -- Gather Data -- Formatting Data -- Wrapping Up -- 3.Choosing Tools to Visualize Data -- Out-of-the-Box Visualization -- Programming -- Illustration -- Mapping -- Survey Your Options -- Wrapping Up -- 4.Visualizing Patterns over Time -- What to Look for over Time -- Discrete Points in Time -- Continuous Data -- Wrapping Up -- 5.Visualizing Proportions -- What to Look for in Proportions -- Parts of a Whole -- Proportions over Time -- Wrapping Up -- 6.Visualizing Relationships -- What Relationships to Look For -- Correlation -- Distribution -- Comparison -- Wrapping Up -- 7.Spotting Differences -- What to Look For -- Comparing across Multiple Variables -- Reducing Dimensions -- Searching for Outliers -- Wrapping Up -- 8.Visualizing Spatial Relationships -- What to Look For -- Specific Locations -- Regions -- Over Space and Time -- Wrapping Up -- 9.Designing with a Purpose -- Prepare Yourself -- Prepare Your Readers -- Visual Cues -- Good Visualization -- Wrapping Up.
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ISBN
9780470944882
0470944889
9781118140246 (ebk.)
1118140249 (ebk.)
9781118140260 (ebk.)
1118140265 (ebk.)
9781118140253 (ebk.)
1118140257 (ebk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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