Data visualization : a practical introduction / Kieran Healy.
"This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data vis...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Physical Description: | xviii, 272 pages : illustrations (some color), charts ; 26 x 21 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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"This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest and effective way. Data visualization builds the reader's expertise in ggplot2, a versatile visualization library for the R programming language ...."--Page 4 of cover. |
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| Call Number: | QA76.9.I52 H43 2019 |
| Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780691181615 0691181616 9780691181622 0691181624 |