Interactive Data Visualization: Foundations Techniques and Applications

About this book

Visualization is the process of representing data information and knowledge in a visual form to support the tasks of exploration confirmation presentation and understanding. This book is designed as a textbook for students researchers analysts professionals and designers of visualization techniques tools and systems. It covers the full spectrum of the field including mathematical and analytical aspects ranging from its foundations to human visual perception; from coded algorithms for different types of data information and tasks to the design and evaluation of new visualization techniques. Sample programs are provided as starting points for building ones own visualization tools. Numerous data sets have been made available that highlight different application areas and allow readers to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of different visualization methods. Exercises programming projects and related readings are given for each chapter. The book concludes with an examination of several existing visualization systems and projections on the future of the field.