October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
10h
English
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INTRODUCTION
1 Card et al. (1999), 7.
2 For further reading on visual displays serving as cognitive artifacts, see Bertin (1967/1983); Card et al. (1999); Norman (1993); Tversky (2001); Ware (2004).
3 Dover in Barber (2005), 174.
4 www.3x4grid.com/about.html (Accessed March 13, 2012).
CHAPTER 1
1 Simon (1962), 468. It is outside the scope of this book to discuss the nature of complex systems; on the other hand, it is a relevant topic considering the kinds of systems that we often encounter with big data.
2 Chen (2006), 89.
3 Cone-trees: Robertson et al. (1991); hyperbolic views: Lamping and Rao (1996), Munzner (1997).
4 Treemaps: Johnson and Shneiderman (1991).
5 Dondis (2000), 85.
6 See: Ware (2004, 2008), Card et al. (1999), MacEachren ...
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