Visualize This by Nathan YauCall Number: EBSCOhost eBooks (CA 365)
ISBN: 9781394214884
Publication Date: 2024
One of the most influential data visualization books--updated with new techniques, technologies, and examples, Visualize This demonstrates how to explain data visually, so that you can present and communicate information in a way that is appealing and easy to understand. Thoughtful charts, maps, and analysis can help us make sense of data. But the data does not speak for itself. As leading data expert Nathan Yau explains in this book, graphics provide little value unless they are built upon a firm understanding of the data behind them. Visualize This teaches you a data-first approach from a practical point of view. You'll start by exploring what your data has to say, and then you'll design visualizations that are both remarkable and meaningful. You'll be exposed to a variety of software and code and jump right into real-world datasets so that you can learn visualization by doing. Step-by-step tutorials and practical design tips for creating statistical graphics, geographical maps, and information design. Tools that can be used to visualize data graphics for reports, presentations, and stories, for the web or for print, with major updates for the latest R packages, Python libraries, JavaScript libraries, illustration software, and point-and-click applications Contains numerous examples and descriptions of patterns and outliers and explains how to show them. Information designers, analysts, journalists, statisticians, data scientists--as well as anyone studying for careers in these fields--will gain a valuable background in the concepts and techniques of data visualization, thanks to this legendary book.