Data Visualization - A Practical Introduction

"This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest and effective way. Data visualization builds the reader's expertise in ggplot2, a versatile visualization library for the R programming language ...."--Page 4 of cover.

About the author

Kieran Healy

Summary

An accessible primer on how to create effective graphics from dataThis book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to t

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"Undoubtedly, this book is an excellent introduction to an essential tool for anyone who needs to collect and present data."

Product details

• Authors: Kieran Healy
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780691181622
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18162-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; Data Mining, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, COMPUTERS / Mathematical & Statistical Software, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, Social research & statistics, Information visualization, Mathematical & statistical software, Social research and statistics, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Visualization, COMPUTERS / Data Science / General, Mathematical and statistical software, Data capture and analysis, Data Capture & Analysis