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The book is a field guide to visual literacy, born from the author's personal experience working with world-class scholars, engineers, and scientists. By walking through the different ways of showing data-including color, angle, position, and length-you'll learn how charts and graphs truly work so that no visualization is ever a mystery.
List of contents
Series editor foreword. About the author. Welcome! 1 What is data? 2 What is data visualization? 3 Length and height. 4 Size and area. 5 Position. 6 Color for categorical data. 7 Color for numerical data. 8 Color for ordinal data. 9 Shapes and patterns. 10 Making colorblind¿friendly visualizations. 11 Angle. 12 Connections and networks. 13 Visualization whoopsies. 14 Sound and touch. 15 Wrapping up.
Appendix 1 - Glossary of words. Appendix 2 - Glossary of graphs. Appendix 3 - Solutions guide. Bibliography. Acknowledgments.
Index.
About the author
Nancy Organ is a Seattle-based data visualization professional with experience in research, education, and tech, including contributions at Microsoft and the University of Washington. She holds a degree in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Endeavoring to make visualization accessible, fun, and empowering for young people and adults alike, she packs nearly a decade of visualization design experience into one light-hearted book.
Summary
The book is a field guide to visual literacy, born from the author’s personal experience working with world-class scholars, engineers, and scientists. By walking through the different ways of showing data—including color, angle, position, and length—you’ll learn how charts and graphs truly work so that no visualization is ever a mystery.
