Visualizing Time

In this book, Graham Wills bridges the gap between the art and the science of visually representing data. He does not simply give rules and advice, but bases these on general principles and provide a clear path between them.

Art, or Science? Which of these is the right way to think of the field of visualization? This is not an easy question to answer, even for those who have many years experience in making graphical depictions of data with a view to help people understand it and take action. In this book, Graham Wills bridges the gap between the art and the science of visually representing data. He does not simply give rules and advice, but bases these on general principles and provide a clear path between them

This book is concerned with the graphical representation of time data and is written to cover a range of different users. A visualization expert designing tools for displaying time will find it valuable, but so also should a financier assembling a report in a spreadsheet, or a medical researcher trying to display gene sequences using a commercial statistical package.

Contains over 100 figures, many in color

All new text and material

A go-to reference for how to visualize time

Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Auteur
Graham Wills is Visualization Architect and Principal Software Engineer for SPSS, Inc.

Contenu
Introduction.- The history of time visualization.- A framework for time visualization.- Time as a coordinate.- Time as an aesthetic.- Transformations of time.- Animation and filtering.- Other interactive techniques.- Techniques for visualizing large data sets.- Specific areas.- How to design a time visualization.- A gallery of time visualizations.