(ASA-CRC Series on Statistical Reasoning in Science and Society) 1st Edition
by Robert Grant (Author)
This is the age of data. There are more innovations and more
opportunities for interesting work with data than ever before, but there
is also an overwhelming amount of quantitative information being
published every day. Data visualisation has become big business, because
communication is the difference between success and failure, no matter
how clever the analysis may have been. The ability to visualize data is
now a skill in demand across business, government, NGOs and academia.
Data Visualization: Charts, Maps, and Interactive Graphics
gives an overview of a wide range of techniques and challenges, while
staying accessible to anyone interested in working with and
understanding data.
Features:
- Focusses on concepts and ways of thinking about data rather than algebra or computer code.
- Features 17 short chapters that can be read in one sitting.
- Includes
chapters on big data, statistical and machine learning models, visual
perception, high-dimensional data, and maps and geographic data.
- Contains more than 125 visualizations, most created by the author.
- Supported
by a website with all code for creating the visualizations, further
reading, datasets and practical advice on crafting the images.
Whether
you are a student considering a career in data science, an analyst who
wants to learn more about visualization, or the manager of a team
working with data, this book will introduce you to a broad range of data
visualization methods.