Visualizing Time: Designing Graphical Representations for Statistical Data

✍ Scribed by Graham Wills (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 265
• Series: Statistics and Computing
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Art, or Science? Which of these is the right way to think of the field of visualization? This is not an easy question to answer, even for those who have many years experience in making graphical depictions of data with a view to help people understand it and take action. In this book, Graham Wills bridges the gap between the art and the science of visually representing data. He does not simply give rules and advice, but bases these on general principles and provide a clear path between them

This book is concerned with the graphical representation of time data and is written to cover a range of different users. A visualization expert designing tools for displaying time will find it valuable, but so also should a financier assembling a report in a spreadsheet, or a medical researcher trying to display gene sequences using a commercial statistical package.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
History....Pages 1-20
Framework....Pages 21-62
Designing Visualizations....Pages 63-93
Types of Data....Pages 95-104
Time as a Coordinate....Pages 105-121
Coordinate Systems, Transformations, Faceting, and Axes....Pages 123-150
Aesthetics....Pages 151-167
Transformations....Pages 169-180
Interactivity....Pages 181-206
Topics In Time....Pages 207-225
Gallery of Figures....Pages 227-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-256

✦ Subjects

Statistical Theory and Methods