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- Data Visualization: a successful design process
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Do you want to create more attractive charts? Or do you have huge data sets and need to unearth the key insights in a visual manner? Data visualization is the representation and presentation of data, using proven design techniques to bring alive the patterns, stories and key insights locked away.Data Visualization: a Successful Design Process explores the unique fusion of art and science that is data visualization; a discipline for which instinct alone is insufficient for you to succeed in enabling audiences to discover key trends, insights and discoveries from your data. This book will equip you with the key techniques required to overcome contemporary data visualization challenges. You'll discover a proven design methodology that helps you develop invaluable knowledge and practical capabilities.You'll never again settle for a default Excel chart or resort to fancy-looking graphs. You will be able to work from the starting point of acquiring, preparing and familiarizing with your data, right through to concept design. Choose your killer visual representation to engage and inform your audience.Data Visualization: a Successful Design Process will inspire you to relish any visualization project with greater confidence and bullish know-how; turning challenges into exciting design opportunities.
- Data Visualization: a successful design process
- Table of Contents
- Data Visualization: a successful design process
- Credits
- About the Author
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Why Subscribe?
- Free Access for Packt account holders
- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
- Preface
- What this book covers
- What you need for this book
- Who this book is for
- Conventions
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. The Context of Data Visualization
- Exploiting the digital age
- Visualization as a discovery tool
- The bedrock of visualization knowledge
- Defining data visualization
- Visualization skills for the masses
- The data visualization methodology
- Visualization design objectives
- Strive for form and function
- Justifying the selection of everything we do
- Creating accessibility through intuitive design
- Never deceive the receiver
- Summary
- 2. Setting the Purpose and Identifying Key Factors
- Clarifying the purpose of your project
- The reason for existing
- The intended effect
- Establishing intent the visualizations function
- When the function is to explain
- When the function is to explore
- When the function is to exhibit data
- Establishing intent the visualization's tone
- Pragmatic and analytical
- Emotive and abstract
- Key factors surrounding a visualization project
- The "eight hats" of data visualization design
- The initiator
- The data scientist
- The journalist
- The computer scientist
- The designer
- The cognitive scientist
- The communicator
- The project manager
- Summary
- Clarifying the purpose of your project
- 3. Demonstrating Editorial Focus and Learning About Your Data
- The importance of editorial focus
- Preparing and familiarizing yourself with your data
- Refining your editorial focus
- Using visual analysis to find stories
- An example of finding and telling stories
- Summary
- 4. Conceiving and Reasoning Visualization Design Options
- Data visualization design is all about choices
- Some helpful tips
- The visualization anatomy data representation
- Choosing the correct visualization method
- Considering the physical properties of our data
- Determining the degree of accuracy in interpretation
- Creating an appropriate design metaphor
- Choosing the final solution
- The visualization anatomy data presentation
- The use of color
- To represent data
- To bring the data layer to the fore
- To conform to design requirements
- The use of color
- Creating interactivity
- Annotation
- Arrangement
- Summary
- 5. Taxonomy of Data Visualization Methods
- Data visualization methods
- Choosing the appropriate chart type
- Comparing categories
- Dot plot
- Bar chart (or column chart)
- Floating bar (or Gantt chart)
- Pixelated bar chart
- Histogram
- Slopegraph (or bumps chart or table chart)
- Radial chart
- Glyph chart
- Sankey diagram
- Area size chart
- Small multiples (or trellis chart)
- Word cloud
- Assessing hierarchies and part-to-whole relationships
- Pie chart
- Stacked bar chart (or stacked column chart)
- Square pie (or unit chart or waffle chart)
- Tree map
- Circle packing diagram
- Bubble hierarchy
- Tree hierarchy
- Showing changes over time
- Line chart
- Sparklines
- Area chart
- Horizon chart
- Stacked area chart
- Stream graph
- Candlestick chart (or box and whiskers plot, OHLC chart)
- Barcode chart
- Flow map
- Plotting connections and relationships
- Scatter plot
- Bubble plot
- Scatter plot matrix
- Heatmap (or matrix chart)
- Parallel sets (or parallel coordinates)
- Radial network (or chord diagram)
- Network diagram (or force-directed/node-link network)
- Mapping geo-spatial data
- Choropleth map
- Dot plot map
- Bubble plot map
- Isarithmic map (or contour map or topological map)
- Particle flow map
- Cartogram
- Dorling cartogram
- Network connection map
- Comparing categories
- Summary
- 6. Constructing and Evaluating Your Design Solution
- For constructing visualizations, technology matters
- Visualization software, applications, and programs
- Charting and statistical analysis tools
- Programming environments
- Tools for mapping
- Other specialist tools
- The construction process
- Approaching the finishing line
- Post-launch evaluation
- Developing your capabilities
- Practice, practice, practice!
- Evaluating the work of others
- Publishing and sharing your output
- Immerse yourself into learning about the field
- Summary
- For constructing visualizations, technology matters
- Index
- Title: Data Visualization: a successful design process
- Author: Andy Kirk, Andy Kirk
- Original title: Data Visualization: a successful design process.
- ISBN: 9781849693479, 9781849693479
- Date of issue: 2012-12-26
- Format: Ebook
- Item ID: e_3cmq
- Publisher: Packt Publishing