The Grammar Of Graphics - Couverture rigide

Wilkinson, Leland

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0387987746 ISBN 13 : 9780387987743

Editeur : Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 1999

Synopsis

This book was written for statisticians, computer scientists, geographers, research and applied scientists, and others interested in visualizing data. It presents a unique foundation for producing almost every quantitative graphic found in scientific journals, newspapers, statistical packages, and data visualization systems. This foundation was designed for a distributed computing environment (Internet, Intranet, client-server), with special attention given to conserving computer code and system resources. While the tangible result of this work is a Java production graphics library (GPL) developed in collaboration with Dan Rope and Dan Carr, this book focuses on the deep structures involved in producing quantitative graphics from data. What are the rules that underlie the production of pie charts, bar charts, scatterplots, function plots, maps, mosaics, and radar charts? These rules are abstracted from the work of Bertin, Cleveland, Kosslyn, MacEachren, Pinker, Tufte, Tukey, Tobler, and other theorists of quantitative graphics. Those less interested in the theoretical and mathematical foundations can still get a sense of the richness and structure of the system by examining the numerous and often unique color graphics it can produce.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Leland Wilkinson is Senior VP, SYSTAT Products at SPSS, Inc., and Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Northwestern University. He wrote the SYSTAT statistical package and founded SYSTAT, Inc., in 1984. Wilkinson joined SPSS in a 1994 acquisition and now works on research and development of graphical applications for data mining and statistics. He is a Fellow of the ASA and an Associate Editor of The American Statistician. In addition to journal articles and the original SYSTAT computer program and manuals, Wilkinson is the author (with Grant Blank and Chris Gruber) of Desktop Data Analysis with SYSTAT.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0387987746
• ISBN 13: 9780387987743
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 425
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible