Yau Visualize This

The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-14024-6
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, E-Book

Practical data design tips from a data visualization expert ofthe modern age
Data doesn?t decrease; it is ever-increasing and can beoverwhelming to organize in a way that makes sense to its intendedaudience. Wouldn?t it be wonderful if we could actually visualizedata in such a way that we could maximize its potential and tell astory in a clear, concise manner? Thanks to the creative genius ofNathan Yau, we can. With this full-color book, data visualizationguru and author Nathan Yau uses step-by-step tutorials to show youhow to visualize and tell stories with data. He explains how togather, parse, and format data and then design high qualitygraphics that help you explore and present patterns, outliers, andrelationships.
* Presents a unique approach to visualizing and telling storieswith data, from a data visualization expert and the creator offlowingdata.com, Nathan Yau
* Offers step-by-step tutorials and practical design tips forcreating statistical graphics, geographical maps, and informationdesign to find meaning in the numbers
* Details tools that can be used to visualize data-nativegraphics for the Web, such as ActionScript, Flash libraries, PHP,and JavaScript and tools to design graphics for print, such as Rand Illustrator
* Contains numerous examples and descriptions of patterns andoutliers and explains how to show them
Visualize This demonstrates how to explain data visually so thatyou can present your information in a way that is easy tounderstand and appealing.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yau, Nathan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction xv
1 Telling Stories with Data 1
More Than Numbers 2
What to Look For 8
Design 13
Wrapping Up 20
2 Handling Data 21
Gather Data 22
Formatting Data 38
Wrapping Up 52
3 Choosing Tools to Visualize Data 53
Out-of-the-Box Visualization 54
Programming 62
Illustration 76
Mapping 80
Survey Your Options 88
Wrapping Up 89
4 Visualizing Patterns over Time 91
What to Look for over Time 92
Discrete Points in Time 93
Continuous Data 118
Wrapping Up 132
5 Visualizing Proportions 135
What to Look for in Proportions 136
Parts of a Whole 136
Proportions over Time 161
Wrapping Up 178
6 Visualizing Relationships 179
What Relationships to Look For 180
Correlation 180
Distribution 200
Comparison 213
Wrapping Up 226
7 Spotting Differences 227
What to Look For 228
Comparing across Multiple Variables 228
Reducing Dimensions 258
Searching for Outliers 265
Wrapping Up 269
8 Visualizing Spatial Relationships 271
What to Look For 272
Specific Locations 272
Regions 285
Over Space and Time 302
Wrapping Up 325
9 Designing with a Purpose 327
Prepare Yourself 328
Prepare Your Readers 330
Visual Cues 334
Good Visualization 340
Wrapping Up 341
Index 343

Über Autor(innen)

Nathan Yau is a PhD candidate in Statistics at UCLA and a lifelong data junkie. His goal is to make data available and useful to those who aren't necessarily data experts, and he focuses on data visualization and personal data collection. You can follow his visualization experiments at http://flowingdata.com.