Flowingdata.com Data Visualization by Wiley -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Contents Visualize This

Contents Chapter 1: Telling Stories with Data

More Than Numbers What to Look For Design Wrapping Up

Chapter 2: Handling Data

Gather Data Formatting Data Wrapping Up

Chapter 3: Choosing Tools to Visualize Data

Out-of-the-Box Visualization Programming Illustration Mapping Survey Your Options Wrapping Up

Chapter 4: Visualizing Patterns over Time

What to Look for over Time Discrete Points in Time Continuous Data Wrapping Up

Chapter 5: Visualizing Proportions

What to Look for in Proportions Parts of a Whole Proportions over Time Wrapping Up

Chapter 6: Visualizing Relationships

What Relationships to Look For Correlation Distribution Comparison Wrapping Up

Chapter 7: Spotting Differences

What to Look For Comparing across Multiple Variables Reducing Dimensions Searching for Outliers Wrapping Up

Chapter 8: Visualizing Spatial Relationships

What to Look For Specific Locations Regions Over Space and Time Wrapping Up

Chapter 9: Designing with a Purpose

Prepare Yourself Prepare Your Readers Visual Cues Good Visualization Wrapping Up

Introduction

Learning Data

Data Points

Introduction

The Process More Than a Tool

Chapter 1: Understanding Data

What Data Represents Variability Uncertainty Context Wrapping Up

Chapter 2: Visualization: The Medium

Analysis and Exploration Information Graphics and Presentation Entertainment Data Art The Everyday Wrapping Up

Chapter 3: Representing Data

Visualization Components Putting It Together Wrapping Up

Chapter 4: Exploring Data Visually

Process Visualizing Categorical Data Visualizing Time Series Data Visualizing Spatial Data Multiple Variables Distributions Wrapping Up

Chapter 5: Visualizing with Clarity

Visual Hierarchy Readability Highlighting Annotation Do the Math Wrapping Up

Chapter 6: Designing for an Audience

Common Misconceptions Present Data to People Things to Consider Putting It Together Wrapping Up

Chapter 7: Where to Go from Here

Visualization Tools Programming Illustration Statistics Wrapping Up

About the Author About the Technical Editor Acknowledgments