Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry
Bill Ferster, "Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry"
English | ISBN: 0262018152 | 2012 | 275 pages | PDF | 21 MB
English | ISBN: 0262018152 | 2012 | 275 pages | PDF | 21 MB
A guide to fundamental issues in designing interactive visualizations, exploring ideas of inquiry, design, structured data, and usability.
Interactive visualization is emerging as a vibrant new form of communication, providing compelling presentations that allow viewers to interact directly with information in order to construct their own understandings of it. Building on a long tradition of print-based information visualization, interactive visualization utilizes the technological capabilities of computers, the Internet, and computer graphics to marshal multifaceted information in the service of making a point visually. This book offers an introduction to the field, presenting a framework for exploring historical, theoretical, and practical issues. It is not a “how-to” book tied to specific and soon-to-be-outdated software tools, but a guide to the concepts that are central to building interactive visualization projects whatever their ultimate form.
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