Interactive data visualization : foundations, techniques, and applications /: foundations, techniques, and applications. (2010)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Matthew Ward, Georges Grinstein, Daniel Keim.
• Other Names: 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 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
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : A K Peters/CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource (513 pages)
• Subjects: 006.6; Information visualization; Computer graphics; Image processing
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781439865545
• Related ISBNs: 143986554X
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