1 Hello, data viz!
This chapter covers
- An introduction to data visualization (data viz)
- What this book is and what it isn’t
- Knowing your audience
- Exploring examples of data viz throughout time
- Popular tools used to create visualizations today
Data visualization is all around you. Sometimes, it sneaks up on you in the most unlikely places. Have you played any video games lately? I bet there was some kind of viz to show your character’s remaining health, your progress toward a goal, or a map to show you the lay of the land and maybe all the places you’d been.
Not only is it fun, but visualization can be incredibly important for the success of an individual, an organization, or even a society as a whole. In 19th-century England, Florence Nightingale ...
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