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

Yau, Nathan

ISBN 10: 0470944889 / ISBN 13: 9780470944882

Edité par John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2011

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Titre : Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to ...

Éditeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc

Date d'édition : 2011

Reliure : paperback

Etat : Good

Edition : 1st Edition.

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Synopsis :

See your data in new waysOur world is awash in data. To mean anything, it must be presented in a way that enables us to interpret, analyze, and apply the information. One of the best ways to do that is visually.Nathan Yau is a pioneer of this innovative approach. In this book, he offers you dozens of ideas for telling your story with data presented in creative, visual ways. Open the book, open your mind, and discover an almost endless variety of ways to give your data new dimensions. Learn to present data with visual representations that allow your audience to see the unexpected Find the stories your data can tell Explore different data sources and determine effective formats for presentation Experiment with and compare different visualization tools Look for trends and patterns in your data and select appropriate ways to chart them Establish clear goals to guide your visualizationsVisit the companion web site at for code samples, data files you can download, and interactive examples to show you how visualization works

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Practical data design tips from a data visualization expert of the modern age

Data doesn?t decrease; it is ever–increasing and can be overwhelming to organize in a way that makes sense to its intended audience. Wouldn?t it be wonderful if we could actually visualize data in such a way that we could maximize its potential and tell a story in a clear, concise manner? Thanks to the creative genius of Nathan Yau, we can. With this full–color book, data visualization guru and author Nathan Yau uses step–by–step tutorials to show you how to visualize and tell stories with data. He explains how to gather, parse, and format data and then design high quality graphics that help you explore and present patterns, outliers, and relationships.

• Presents a unique approach to visualizing and telling stories with data, from a data visualization expert and the creator of flowingdata.com, Nathan Yau
• Offers step–by–step tutorials and practical design tips for creating statistical graphics, geographical maps, and information design to find meaning in the numbers
• Details tools that can be used to visualize data–native graphics for the Web, such as ActionScript, Flash libraries, PHP, and JavaScript and tools to design graphics for print, such as R and Illustrator
• Contains numerous examples and descriptions of patterns and outliers and explains how to show them

Visualize This demonstrates how to explain data visually so that you can present your information in a way that is easy to understand and appealing.