Data Design: Visualising Quantities, Locations, Connections

ISBN-13: 9781408191873 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 176 str.

Per Mollerup

Opis

Data Design: Visualising quantities, locations, connections is a lively and comprehensive introduction to data visualisation, illustrated with 199 instructive data displays. The book is for designers, journalists, editors, writers and anyone concerned with presenting factual information in a clear and effective way.Data Design highlights the key qualities of good data visualisation: accuracy, simplicity, and clarity. In this spirit, Per Mollerup discusses information design with great clarity. The proposed data displays are as simple as possible, and every graphic element is there to convey meaning. This book is not about data decoration.Data Design can be read from cover to cover, but it doesn't have to be. It can also serve as a reference guide. Each of the data displays included is explained in such a way as to clarify the problems to be addressed and the method by which to address them, enabling the reader to develop the skills with which to improve their data visualisation designs.

Recenzje

Data Design makes a strong and clear attempt to describe the principles and practices of data visualisation needed to make data easily perceptible ... The book is very practical, no specialist tools are required ... [and it] also supports critical thinking ... A useful reference guide ... both parsimonious and comprehensive. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation

Spis treści

IntroductionOrganizing Knowledge Field of StudyGoalsBenefitsInformation GraphicsSimplicityMilestonesBasicsBeware of Visual DisplaysResearch and Common SenseGestalt Principles of PerceptionPsychological PrinciplesColourNotationReading Visual DisplaysChoice of DisplayVisualising QuantitiesVariablesPie ChartsVertical Bar Charts Histograms Stem-and-leaf PlotsHorizontal Bar ChartsDivided Bar ChartsStacked Bar ChartsStep ChartsBubble ChartsLine ChartsLayer Charts Radar ChartsScatter PlotsPicture TablesHeat MapsSmall MultiplesDon'tsVisualising LocationsThematic MapsMap ScaleMap ProjectionThe Geographical Coordinate SystemMap OrientationChoropleth MapsProportional Symbol MapsIsopleth MapsCartogramsChorochromatic MapsDot Distribution MapsTransit mapsYou-Are-Here MapsVisualising ConnectionsTreesDecision TreesTreemapsMind MapsPositioning MapsTimelinesFlow ChartsConcept MapsVenn DiagramsCarroll DiagramsEuler DiagramsEnd MatterSourcesIndexAcknowledgementsAuthor Bio

O autorze

Born 1942Doctor of Technology, Lund University, Sweden, 1997Master of Business Administration, Aarhus School of Business, Denmark, 1968 Professor of Communication Design, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, 2009-Professor in design, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Oslo, 2006-2009 Managing Director of Designlab A/S, Copenhagen, 1984-Editor and publisher of Tools Design Journal, 1984-1988Editor and publisher of Mobilia Design Magazine, 1974-1984 Recipient of several prizes and grantsHonorary member of Estonian Association of DesignersPresident Elect, IIID International Institute of Information DesignMember of the Advisory Board of Information Design JournalMember of the International Advisory Board of MSc Course Traffic & Transport Information design, IIID / FH St. Poelten University of Applied Sciences, Austria National Chairman 1988-1993 The Danish Society of Book Crafts