Getting (More Out Of) Graphics - Practice and Principles of Data Visualisation

This book presents a practical approach to graphic data analysis with real applications front and centre. A knowledge of Statistics is not required, just an interest in data graphics and some experience of working with data.

List of contents

Preface
1. Introduction
Part 1: Graphics in Action
2. Graphics and Gapminder
3. Looking at the movies
4. Voting 46 times to choose a Presidential candidate
5. Measuring the speed of light
6. The modern Olympic Games in numbers
7. Re-viewing Bertin’s main example
8. Comparing chess players across the board
9. Results from surveys on gay rights
10. Who went up in space for how long?
11. Data in the sky at night
12. Psoriasis and the Quality of Life
13. Charging electric cars
14. Darwin’s Finches
15. Home or away: where do soccer players play?
16. Watching soccer—the English leagues
17. Fuel efficiency of cars in the USA
18. Differences amongst the Palmer penguins
19. Comparing tests for malaria
20. Are swimmers swimming faster?
21. Over 90 years running 90 km
22. Comparing software for facial recognition
23. Distinguishing shearwaters
24. When do road accidents with deer happen in Bavaria?
25. The Titanic Disaster
26. German Election 2021—what happened?
Part 2: Advice on Graphics
27. Provenance and quality
28. Wrangling
29. Colour
30. Setting the scene
31. Ordering, sorting, and arranging
32. What affects interpretation?
33. Varieties of plots, developing plots
34. Conclusions and recommendations
References

About the author

Antony Unwin was the first Professor of Computer-oriented Statistics and Data Analysis at the University of Augsburg in Germany. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Society, author of Graphical Data Analysis with R, co-author of Graphics of Large Datasets, and co-editor of the Handbook of Data Visualization.

Summary

This book presents a practical approach to graphic data analysis with real applications front and centre. A knowledge of Statistics is not required, just an interest in data graphics and some experience of working with data.

Product details

• Authors: Antony Unwin, Antony (University of Augsburg) Unwin, Unwin Antony
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.07.2024
• EAN: 9780367674007
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67400-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Data Science Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Probability theory, stochastic theory, mathematical statistics; MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, COMPUTERS / Mathematical & Statistical Software, Information visualization, Probability & statistics, Mathematical & statistical software, Information technology: general issues, Probability and statistics, COMPUTERS / Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Information technology: general topics, COMPUTERS / Data Science / Data Visualization, Mathematical and statistical software