Ebook: Introduction to Information Visualization
Author: Riccardo Mazza (auth.)
- Tags: Information Systems and Communication Service, Computer Imaging Vision Pattern Recognition and Graphics, User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction
- Year: 2009
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
- City: London
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Information Visualization is a relatively young field that is acquiring more and more consensus in both academic and industrial environments. This concise introduction to the subject explores the use of computer-supported interactive graphical representations to explain data and amplify cognition. Written in a lively, yet rigorous, style the book explores ways of communicating ideas or facts about data, and shows how to validate hypotheses, and facilitate the discovery of new facts via exploration.
The concepts outlined in the book are illustrated in a simple and thorough manner, building a reference for those situations in which graphic representation of information, generated and assisted by the use of computer tools, can help in visualizing ideas, data and concepts.
With suggestions for setting communications systems based on, or availing of, graphic representations, this textbook illustrates cases, situations, tools and methods which help make the graphic representations of information effective and efficient.
This book provides a clean, clear introduction to numerous examples and various principles of information visualisation design. You won't find many new or surprising examples but it would make an excellent primer for students (except for the price). You can find these examples and kind of knowledge for free on [...] and similar weblogs about visualisation.