The Golden Age of Data Visualization
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The Golden Age of Data Visualization

How Did We Get Here?

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The Golden Age of Data Visualization

How Did We Get Here?

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About This Book

We are living in the Golden Age of Data Visualization. The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated how we increasingly use data visualizations to make sense of the world. Business analysts fill their presentations with charts, journalists use infographics to engage their readers, we rely on the dials and gauges on our household appliances, and we use mapping apps on our smartphones to find our way.

This book explains how and why this has happened. It details the evolution of information graphics, the kinds of graphics at the core of data visualization—maps, diagrams, charts, scientific and medical images—from prehistory to the present day. It explains how the cultural context, production and presentation technologies, and data availability have shaped the history of data visualization. It considers the perceptual and cognitive reasons why data visualization is so effective and explores the little-known world of tactile graphics—raised-line drawings used by people who are blind. The book also investigates the way visualization has shaped our modern world. The European Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution relied on maps and technical and scientific drawings, and graphics influence how we think about abstract concepts like time and social connection.

This book is written for data visualization researchers and professionals and anyone interested in data visualization and the way we use graphics to understand and think about the world.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040111444
Edition
1
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Computer Graphics
Index
Computer Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Endorsement
  3. Half-Title Page
  4. Series Page
  5. Title Page
  6. Copyright Page
  7. Table of Contents
  8. Series Editors Foreword
  9. Preface
  10. Acknowledgment of Country
  11. Introduction
  12. Chapter 1 The Beginning
  13. Chapter 2 The Very Beginning
  14. Chapter 3 Drawing Buildings and Machines
  15. Chapter 4 Drawing Nature
  16. Chapter 5 Mapping the World
  17. Chapter 6 Mapping the State
  18. Chapter 7 Seeing the Unseeable
  19. Chapter 8 Visualizing Statistics
  20. Chapter 9 Modern Visualization
  21. Chapter 10 The Democratization of Visualization
  22. Chapter 11 Visualization without Vision
  23. Chapter 12 What’s Next?
  24. Conclusion
  25. Index