
The Grammar of Graphics
Leland Wilkinson(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 19. August 1999
Book
Hardback
XVII, 408 pages
978-0-387-98774-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Written for statisticians, computer scientists, geographers, research and applied scientists, and others interested in visualizing data, this book presents a unique foundation for producing almost every quantitative graphic found in scientific journals, newspapers, statistical packages, and data visualization systems. It was designed for a distributed computing environment, with special attention given to conserving computer code and system resources. While the tangible result of this work is a Java production graphics library, the text focuses on the deep structures involved in producing quantitative graphics from data. It investigates the rules that underlie pie charts, bar charts, scatterplots, function plots, maps, mosaics, and radar charts. These rules are abstracted from the work of Bertin, Cleveland, Kosslyn, MacEachren, Pinker, Tufte, Tukey, Tobler, and other theorists of quantitative graphics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
208 illus., 169 in color.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Weight
820 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-387-98774-3 (9780387987743)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4757-3100-2
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Content
1 Introduction.- 2 How to Make a Pie.- 3 Data.- 4 Variables.- 5 Algebra.- 6 Geometry.- 7 Aesthetics.- 8 Statistics.- 9 Scales.- 10 Coordinates.- 11 Facets.- 12 Guides.- 13 Graphboard.- 14 Reader.- 15 Semantics.- References.- Author Index.