Interactive data visualization : foundations, techniques, and applications /: foundations, techniques, and applications. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Matthew Ward, Georges Grinstein, Daniel Keim.
• Authors: Ward, Matthew, 1955-; Grinstein, Georges G; Keim, Daniel
• Contents: Introduction; What Is Visualization?; History of Visualization; Relationship between Visualization and Other Fields; The Visualization Process; Pseudocode Conventions; The Scatterplot; The Role of the User; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Data Foundations; Types of Data; Structure within and between Records; Data Preprocessing; Data Sets Used in This Book; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Human Perception and Information Processing; What Is Perception?; Physiology; Perceptual Processing; Perception in Visualization; Metrics; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Visualization Foundations; The Visualization Process in Detail; Semiology of Graphical Symbols; The Eight Visual Variables; Historical Perspective; Taxonomies; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Visualization Techniques for Spatial Data; One-Dimensional Data; Two-Dimensional Data; Three-Dimensional Data; Dynamic Data; Combining Techniques; Summary; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Visualization Techniques for Geospatial Data ; Visualizing Spatial Data; Visualization of Point Data; Visualization of Line Data; Visualization of Area Data; Other Issues in Geospatial Data Visualization; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Visualization Techniques for Time-Oriented Data; Introduction; Definitions: Characterizing Time-Oriented Data; Visualizing Time-Oriented Data; TimeBench: A Data Model and Software Library for Visual Analytics of Time-Oriented Data; Summary; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Visualization Techniques for Multivariate Data; Point-Based Techniques; Line-Based Techniques; Region-Based Techniques; Combinations of Techniques; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Visualization Techniques for Trees, Graphs, and Networks; Displaying Hierarchical Structures; Displaying Arbitrary Graphs/Networks; Other Issues; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Text and Document Visualization; Introduction; Levels of Text Representations; The Vector Space Model; Single Document Visualizations; Document Collection Visualizations; Extended Text Visualizations; Summary; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Interaction Concepts; Interaction Operators; Interaction Operands and Spaces; A Unified Framework; Summary; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Interaction Techniques; Screen Space; Object Space (D Surfaces); Data Space (Multivariate Data Values); Attribute Space (Properties of Graphical Entities); Data Structure Space (Components of Data Organization); Visualization Structure Space (Components of the; Data Visualization); Animating Transformations; Interaction Control; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Designing Effective Visualizations; Steps in Designing Visualizations; Problems in Designing Effective Visualizations; Summary; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Comparing and Evaluating Visualization Techniques; User Tasks; User Characteristics; Data Characteristics; Visualization Characteristics; Structures for Evaluating Visualizations; Benchmarking Procedures; An Example of Visualization Benchmarking; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Visualization Systems; Systems Based on Data Type; Systems Based on Analysis Type; Text Analysis and Visualization; Modern Integrated Visualization Systems; Toolkits; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Research Directions in Visualization; Issues of Data; Issues of Cognition, Perception, and Reasoning; Issues of System Design; Issues of Evaluation; Issues of Hardware; Issues of Applications; Related Readings; Exercises; Projects Appendix A: History of Computer Graphics and Visualization; Appendix B: Example Data Sets; Appendix C: Sample Programs Bibliography Index
• Edition: 2nd edition
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 006.6; Information visualization; Computer graphics; Image processing
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482257403; 9781482257380; 9781482257397
• Related ISBNs: 9781482257373
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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