Data Visualization

This guide provides a creative, informative, and practical introduction to the general principles of information design.

Using examples from art, design, business, statistics, cartography, and online media, the author explores ideas about illustrating data.

We have access to vast amounts of free information. With the right tools, we can start to make sense of all this data to see patterns and trends that would otherwise be invisible to us. By transforming numbers into graphical shapes, we allow readers to understand the stories those numbers hide.

If you want to be on the leading edge of what is sure to become a major profession in the not-too-distant future, this book can show you how. Each chapter is filled with practical information that will help you reap the fruits of big data and become a successful Data Scientist.

Infographics provide us with quick, often influential bursts of art and knowledge; to digest, to tweet, to share, to go viral.