Book description
Learn How to Design Effective Visualization SystemsVisualization Analysis and Design provides a systematic, comprehensive framework for thinking about visualization in terms of principles and design choices. The book features a unified approach encompassing information visualization techniques for abstract data, scientific visualization techniques
Table of contents
- Preliminaries
- Preface
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Chapter 1 Whatâs Vis, and Why Do It?
- 1.1 The Big Picture
- 1.2 Why Have a Human in the Loop?
- 1.3 Why Have a Computer in the Loop?
- 1.4 Why Use an External Representation?
- 1.5 Why Depend on Vision?
- 1.6 Why Show the Data in Detail?
- 1.7 Why Use Interactivity?
- 1.8 Why Is the Vis Idiom Design Space Huge?
- 1.9 Why Focus on Tasks?
- 1.10 Why Focus on Effectiveness?
- 1.11 Why Are Most Designs Ineffective?
- 1.12 Why Is Validation Difficult?
- 1.13 Why Are There Resource Limitations?
- 1.14 Why Analyze?
- 1.15 Further Reading
- Chapter 2 What: Data Abstraction
- Chapter 3 Why: Task Abstraction
- Chapter 4 Analysis: Four Levels for Validation
- Chapter 5 Marks and Channels
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Chapter 6 Rules of Thumb
- 6.1 The Big Picture
- 6.2 Why and When to Follow Rules of Thumb?
- 6.3 No Unjustified 3D
- 6.4 No Unjustified 2D
- 6.5 Eyes Beat Memory
- 6.6 Resolution over Immersion
- 6.7 Overview First, Zoom and Filter, Details on Demand
- 6.8 Responsiveness Is Required
- 6.9 Get It Right in Black and White
- 6.10 Function First, Form Next
- 6.11 Further Reading
- Chapter 7 Arrange Tables
- Chapter 8 Arrange Spatial Data
- Chapter 9 Arrange Networks and Trees
- Chapter 10 Map Color and Other Channels
- Chapter 11 Manipulate View
- Chapter 12 Facet into Multiple Views
- Chapter 13 Reduce Items and Attributes
- Chapter 14 Embed: Focus+Context
- Chapter 15 Analysis Case Studies
- Figure Credits
- Bibliography
Product information
- Title: Visualization Analysis and Design
- Author(s):
- Release date: December 2014
- Publisher(s): A K Peters/CRC Press
- ISBN: 9781498759717
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