Impactful data visualization : hide and seek with graphs /: hide and seek with graphs. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Kavitha Ranganathan.
• Authors: Kavitha Ranganathan
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Whetting Your Appetite; Basic Chart Types; Navigating the Book; Representing Quantities Truthfully; Bar Charts and How Not to Trip on Them; Scales for Other Chart Types; Icons in Bar Charts; Circles for Values: Mystery Solved!; The Deception of the Third Dimension; Using 3D Objects for Visual Appeal; Third Dimension to Incorporate a Variable; Spurious Trends and How to Spot Them; Aspect Ratio of Graphs; Unexpected Change of Scale; Stacked Area Graphs; The Effect of Inversion; Dual Axis Graphs; Design Choices for Accurate Data Interpretation; General Design Guidelines for All Graphs; Getting the Pie to Work for You; The Honest Bar Graph; The Truthful Line Graph; Tell Your Data Story; Pre-attentive Processing and How to Leverage It; The Role of Text in a Data Visual; Putting It Together: Weaving a Narrative; Closing Thoughts; Practise Your Learnings
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Los Angeles : SAGE
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 001.4226; Information visualization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9789354795558; 9789354795602
• Related ISBNs: 9789354795541
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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