Mathematica data visualization : create and prototype interactive data visualizations using Mathematica /: create and prototype interactive data visualizations using Mathematica. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Nazmus Saquib.
• Authors: Saquib, Nazmus
• Contents: Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Visualization as a Tool to Understand Data; The importance of visualization; Types of datasets; Tables; Scalar fields; Time series; Graphs; Text; Cartographic data; Mathematica as a tool for visualization; Getting started with Mathematica; Creating and selecting cells; Evaluating a cell; Suppressing output from a cell; Cell formatting; Commenting; Aborting evaluation; Upcoming chapters; Further reading; Summary; Chapter 2: Dissecting Data Using Mathematica. Data structures and core languagesIntroducing lists; Nested lists; Matrices; Constructing lists programmatically; Accessing elements from a list; Applying set operations on lists; Functions and conditionals; Declaring and using functions; Conditionals; Further core language; Data importing and basic plots; Importing data into Mathematica; SetDirectory and NotebookDirectory; Loading the dataset; Basic plotting functions; ListPlot; Styling our plots; Plot legends; 3D point plots; Log plots; Further reading; Summary; Chapter 3: Time Series and Scientific Visualization. Periodic patterns in time seriesSector charts; Simulating Internet activity; SectorChart and its options; Interactive visualization of financial data; The DateListPlot function; Adding interactivity -- preliminaries; Intermission -- Graphics and Show; Adding interactivity -- Dynamic and Refresh; Isocontour and molecular visualization; Introduction to isocontours; Example project -- protein molecule visualization; Loading and visualizing the protein molecule; Preparing the isocontour plots; Adding interactivity -- manipulate; Isosurface and styling. Thinking like a visualization scientist -- isovalue analysisFurther reading; Summary; Chapter 4: Statistical and Information Visualization; Statistical visualization; The swiss bank notes dataset; Histograms and charts; Histogram; PairedHistogram; Histogram3D; PieChart; BubbleChart; Choosing appropriate plots; A glimpse of high-dimensional data; Similarity maps; Projecting information to low dimensions; Visualizing genuine and counterfeit clusters; Similarity map for smaller datasets; Things that can (and will) go wrong; Text visualization; A modified word cloud; Cleaning the data. The basic algorithmCode and explanation; Graphs and networks; A basic graph visualization; Representing graphs in Mathematica; Visualizing the Les Misérables network; Highlighting centrality measures; Other graph layouts; 3D layouts; Chord diagrams; Code and explanation; Tweaking the visualization; Further reading; Summary; Chapter 5: Maps and Aesthetics; Map visualization; The GeoGraphics package; A map of our current location; Plotting a path on the map; Interactivity in GeoGraphics; Anatomy of a map visualization engine; The visual interface; Code and explanation.
• Publisher Details: Birmingham : Packt Publishing
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 510.285/536; COMPUTERS -- Data Visualization; Mathematica (Computer program language); Mathematics -- Data processing; MATHEMATICS -- Essays; MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus; MATHEMATICS -- Reference; Mathematica (Computer program language); Mathematics -- Data processing; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- C; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- Java; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781783283002; 1783283009; 1322166072; 9781322166070; 1783282991; 9781783282999
• Related ISBNs: 9781783282999
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