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Introduction xv 1 Telling Stories with Data 1 More Than Numbers 2 What to Look For 8 Design 13 Wrapping Up 20 2 Handling Data 21 Gather Data 22 Formatting Data 38 Wrapping Up 52 3 Choosing Tools to Visualize Data 53 Out-of-the-Box Visualization 54 Programming 62 Illustration 76 Mapping 80 Survey Your Options 88 Wrapping Up 89 4 Visualizing Patterns over Time 91 What to Look for over Time 92 Discrete Points in Time 93 Continuous Data 118 Wrapping Up 132 5 Visualizing Proportions 135 What to Look for in Proportions 136 Parts of a Whole 136 Proportions over Time 161 Wrapping Up 178 6 Visualizing Relationships 179 What Relationships to Look For 180 Correlation 180 Distribution 200 Comparison 213 Wrapping Up 226 7 Spotting Differences 227 What to Look For 228 Comparing across Multiple Variables 228 Reducing Dimensions 258 Searching for Outliers 265 Wrapping Up 269 8 Visualizing Spatial Relationships 271 What to Look For 272 Specific Locations 272 Regions 285 Over Space and Time 302 Wrapping Up 325 9 Designing with a Purpose 327 Prepare Yourself 328 Prepare Your Readers 330 Visual Cues 334 Good Visualization 340 Wrapping Up 341 Index 343 |
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