Data visualization : a practical introduction /

This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods and how to think about data visua...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Healy, Kieran Joseph, 1973- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019].
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Summary:This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods and how to think about data visualization in an honest and effective way. Data visualization builds the reader's expertise in ggplot2, a versatile visualization library for the R programming language.
Physical Description:xviii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-266) and index.
ISBN:9780691181622
0691181624
9780691181615
0691181616