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.

List of contents

Introduction

Part One: The Dawn of the 4th Dynasty
1. The Reign of Sneferu
2. Sneferu at Meidum
3. Dahshur: Sneferu and the Cult of the Sun
4. The Court of Sneferu
5. The King Is Dead

Part Two: The Reign of the Sun God
6. The Early Reign of Khufu
7. Revolution in Year Five
8. Ruthless Monarch or Great
Scientist?
9. Khufu's Court
10. The Completion of the Great Pyramid
and the Death of Khufu

Part Three: The Heirs of Khufu
11. Battles Stir Within the Royal Family: Djedefre at Abu Rawash
12. The Conspiracies of Khafre
13. The Pyramid Complex of Khafre
14. The Court of Khafre
15. The Death of Khafre
16. Menkaure Ascends the Throne

Part Four: The Pyramid Builders at Giza
17. The Pyramid Builders of Giza
18. The Lives of the Pyramid Builders

Part Five: The End of an Era
19. Shepseskaf, the Good Son
20. The Rising of the Sons of Re: The Reign of Khentkawes and the Dawn of the 5th Dynasty
21. The Abandonment of Giza

Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

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

Additional text

"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: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9780691181615
• ISBN: 978-0-691-18161-5
• No. of pages: 292
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; 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