Spis treści: „Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks”

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Tytuł: „Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks”
Autor: Jonathan Schwabish
Wydawca: Columbia University Press
Data wydania: 2021-02-09
Język: Angielski
Liczba stron: 320

Spis treści

Spis treści / Table of contents

INTRODUCTION / 1

PART ONE: PRINCIPLES OF DATA VISUALIZATION

1. VISUAL PROCESSING AND PERCEPTUAL RANKINGS / 13

Anscombe’s Quartet / 20

Gestalt Principles of Visual Perception / 22

Preattentive Processing / 25

2. FIVE GUIDELINES FOR BETTER DATA VISUALIZATIONS / 29

Guideline 1: Show the Data / 29

Guideline 2: Reduce the Clutter / 31

Guideline 3: Integrate the Graphics and Text / 33

Guideline 4. Avoid the Spaghetti Chart / 41

Guideline 5. Start with Gray / 43

3. FORM AND FUNCTION: LET YOUR AUDIENCE’S NEEDS DRIVE YOUR DATA VISUALIZATION CHOICES / 53

Changing How We Interact with Data / 53

Let’s Get Started / 61

PART TWO: CHART TYPES

4. COMPARING CATEGORIES / 67 

Bar Charts / 68 

Paired Bar / 84 

Stacked Bar / 87 

Diverging Bar / 92 

Dot Plot / 97 

Marimekko and Mosaic Charts / 102 

Unit, Isotype, and Waffle Charts / 106 

Heatmap / 112 

Gauge and Bullet Charts / 118 

Bubble Comparison and Nested Bubbles / 121 

Sankey Diagram / 126 

Waterfall Chart / 129 

Conclusion / 130 

5. TIME / 133 

Line Chart / 133 

Circular Line Chart / 149 

Slope Chart / 150 

Sparklines / 152 

Bump Chart / 153 

Cycle Chart / 155 

Area Chart / 157 

Stacked Area Chart / 159 

Stream graph / 162 

Horizon Chart / 164 

Gantt Chart / 166 

Flow Charts and Timelines / 170 

Connected Scatterplot / 175 

Conclusion / 177 

6. DISTRIBUTION / 179 

Histogram / 179 

Pyramid Chart / 185 

Visualizing Statistical Uncertainty with Charts / 187

Box-and-Whisker Plot / 196

Candlestick Chart / 199

Violin Chart / 200

Ridgeline Plot / 201

Visualizing Uncertainty by Showing the Data / 204

Stem-and-Leaf Plot / 214

Conclusion / 215

7. GEOSPATIAL / 217

Choropleth Map / 220

Cartograrn / 233

Proportional Symbol and Dot Density Maps / 243

Flow Map / 245

Conclusion / 248

8. RELATIONSHIP / 249 

Scatterplot / 249 

Parallel Coordinates Plot / 263 

Radar Charts / 267 

Chord Diagram / 269 

Arc Chart / 272 

Correlation Matrix / 275 

Network Diagrams / 277 

Tree Diagrams / 284 

Conclusion / 287 

9. PART-TO-WHOLE / 289 

Pie Charts / 289 

Treemap / 297 

Sunburst Diagram / 299 

Nightingale Chart / 300 

Voronoi Diagram / 304 

Conclusion / 309

10. QUALITATIVE / 311

Icons / 311

Word Clouds and Specific Words / 312

Word Trees / 216

Specific Words / 318

Quotes / 319

Coloring Phrases / 321

Matrices and Lists / 324 

Conclusion / 325

11. TABLES / 327

The Ten Guidelines of Better Tables / 329

Demonstration: A Basic Data Table Redesign / 338

Demonstration: A Regression Table Redesign / 341

Conclusion / 344

PART THREE: DESIGNING AND REDESIGNING YOUR VISUAL 

12. DEVELOPING A DATA VISUALIZATION STYLE GUIDE / 349

The Anatomy of a Graph / 352 

Color Palettes / 358

Defining Fonts for the Style Guide / 362

Guidance for Specific Graph Types / 364

Exporting Images / 365

Accessibility, Diversity, and Inclusion / 366

Putting it All Together / 368

13. REDESIGNS / 369

Paired Bar Chart: Acreage for Major Field Crops / 369

Stacked Bar Chart: Service Delivery / 372

Line Chart: The Social Security Trustees / 374

Choropleth Map: Alabama Slavery and Senate Elections / 378

Dot Plot: The National School Lunch Program / 380

Dot Plot: GDP Growth in the United States / 382

Line Chart: Net Government Borrowing / 385

Table: Firm Engagement / 387

Conclusion / 389

CONCLUSION / 391

APPENDIX 1: DATA VISUALIZATION TOOLS / 397

APPENDIX 2: FURTHER READING AND RESOURCES / 403 

General Data Visualization Books / 403

Historical Data Visualization Books / 405

Books on Data Visualization Tools / 405

Data Visualization Libraries / 406

Where to Practice / 407

Acknowledgments / 409

References / 413

Index / 431

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