Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Contents
3. Chapter 1: Telling Stories with Data
   1. More Than Numbers
   2. What to Look For
   3. Design
   4. Wrapping Up
4. Chapter 2: Handling Data
   1. Gather Data
   2. Formatting Data
   3. Wrapping Up
5. Chapter 3: Choosing Tools to Visualize Data
   1. Out-of-the-Box Visualization
   2. Programming
   3. Illustration
   4. Mapping
   5. Survey Your Options
   6. Wrapping Up
6. Chapter 4: Visualizing Patterns over Time
   1. What to Look for over Time
   2. Discrete Points in Time
   3. Continuous Data
   4. Wrapping Up
7. Chapter 5: Visualizing Proportions
   1. What to Look for in Proportions
   2. Parts of a Whole
   3. Proportions over Time
   4. Wrapping Up
8. Chapter 6: Visualizing Relationships
   1. What Relationships to Look For
   2. Correlation
   3. Distribution
   4. Comparison
   5. Wrapping Up
9. Chapter 7: Spotting Differences
   1. What to Look For
   2. Comparing across Multiple Variables
   3. Reducing Dimensions
   4. Searching for Outliers
   5. Wrapping Up
10. Chapter 8: Visualizing Spatial Relationships
    1. What to Look For
    2. Specific Locations
    3. Regions
    4. Over Space and Time
    5. Wrapping Up
11. Chapter 9: Designing with a Purpose
    1. Prepare Yourself
    2. Prepare Your Readers
    3. Visual Cues
    4. Good Visualization
    5. Wrapping Up
12. Introduction
    1. Learning Data