Learn to visualize your data like an expert with these practical howtos for presentation, analysis, and understanding. The flowingdata guide to design, visualization, and statistics is a worthy effort to make a primer on data visualization. Visualization that means something, author nathan yau presents an intriguing complement to his bestseller. This interactive chart will show you when and how youre. Nathan yau is a pioneer of this innovative approach. Interview with nathan yau of flowingdata simply statistics. Nathan yau, a graduate student at the university of californialos angeles, has an even more specific focus. I started it on a whim as a statistics graduate student, but now its my fulltime job. I run flowingdata, a blog on visualization, statistics, and information design. Visualization that means something, author nathan yau presents an intriguing complement to whether its statistical charts, geographic maps, or the snappy graphical statistics you see on your favorite news sites, the art of data graphics or visualization is fast becoming a movement of its own. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. He recently published a book visualize thisa really nice guide to modern data visualization using r, illustrator and javascript which should be on the bookshelf of any statistician working on data visualization.
The flowing data guide to design, visualization, and statistics by nathan yau. Visualize this by nathan yau, 9780470944882, available at. Hi, im nathan yau from flowingdata, and i help people. The list of graphics from the stanford group are much more contemporary than the examples from nathan yau, but still all of these examples use the same mechanism to visualize timeseries data by using one axis as a dimension for time. My name is nathan yau, and im the one writing for flowingdata. Also known as a bivariate area chart, the plot type focuses on the comparison between two time series. The book is published by wiley and is available on amazon and other major online booksellers.
Youll learn all the tricks of the trade for finding data, cleaning data, making a graphic and cleaning the graphic to make it fit to print. Visualization that means something, by nathan yau by travis korte july 12, 20 yau, the creator of has written a followup to his popular technical treatise visualize this, focusing this time on the graphics of data analysis. He explains how to gather, parse, and format data and then design high quality graphics that help you explore and present patterns, outliers, and relationships. Nothing against nathans first book, but i found it disappointing because it read like a disjointed programming handbook, rather than like a true guide to design, visualization, and statistics, which is what its subtitle promises. Today, a highly anticipated new book joins their ranks visualize this. This text provides stepbystep tutorials on how to visualize and tell stories with data. For those whod like to use base r graphics instead of ggplot2, nathan yau of the flowing data blog has an excellent tutorial including downloadable code. A fresh look at visualization from the author of visualize this whether its statistical charts, geographic maps, or the snappy graphical statistics you see on your favorite news sites, the art of data graphics or visualization is fast becoming a movement of its own. With this fullcolor book, data visualization guru and author nathan yau uses stepbystep tutorials to show you how to visualize and tell stories with data. My phd research was on how visualization could help nonexperts understand their personal data better, and that spilled over to more general sorts of visualization. An overview of every data visualization course on the internet.
Below are my first impressions after spending a few hours with this book. I have a phd in statistics from ucla, and im a statistician. The flowingdata guide to design, visualization and statistics. Data visualization is a frequent fixation around here and, just recently, we looked at 7 essential books that explore the disciplines capacity for creative storytelling. The flowing data guide to design, visualization, and statistics nathan yau, wiley 2011 now you see it, stephen few, analytics press 2009 suggested feedsblog subscriptions dataplusscience by jeffrey shaffer data revelations by steve wexler viz of the day by tableau software makeover monday project by andy kriebel and eva murray. Visualize this also features tools and software recommendations to design graphics for both the web and. Texts that focus on the design elements of data visualizations. With this fullcolor book, data visualization guru and author nathan yau uses stepbystep tutorials to show you how to visualize and tell pdf stories with data. Nathan yau is a graduate student in statistics at ucla and the author of the extremely popular data visualization blog. Nathan yau visualize this is a guide on how to visualize and tell stories with data, providing practical design tips complemented with stepbystep tutorials.
Theatre by obama kfc on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. A book by nathan yau who writes for flowingdata, visualize this is a practical guide on visualization and how to approach realworld data. Yau says most of his visualizations begin with asking a question. To mean anything, it must be presented in a way that enables us to interpret, analyze, and apply the information.
Data points is a more solid work than visualize this. Nathan east, the master musician who teaches bass guitar lessons at artistworks, has clocked in an astonishing number of hours in the studio. The flowingdata guide to design, visualization, and statistics, penned by nathan yau of the fantastic flowingdata blog. Released just 2 weeks ago i got a copy of visualize this, the new book by flowingdata blog author nathan yau. Stevens institute of technology school of systems and. Nathan yau nathan yau must be one of the most influential phd students in the world.
It is based on the main idea that one can find patterns through well chosen data. Thanks to the creative genius of nathan yau, we can. Nathan yau maintains one of the most famous blog about data visualization. He founded a web site, your flowing data, that helps people chart. His goal is to make data available and useful to those who arent necessarily data. The book focuses mostly on statistical data with technical references and putting visualization into form through programming. Flowingdata guide to design, visualization, and statistics contents.
The flowing data guide to design, visualization, and statistics. Practical data design tips from a data visualization expert of the modern age. A year ago, i dropped out of one of the best computer science programs in canada. Yau used life expectancy data from the world health organization. The flowing data guide to design, visualization, and statistics by yau, nathan july 8, 2011 paperback 01jan1700. Visualization that means something, author nathan yau presents an intriguing complement to his bestseller visualize this, this time focusing on the graphics side of data analysis.
Up 20 2 handling data 21 gather data 22 formatting data 38 wrapping up 52 3 choosing tools to visualize data 53 outofthebox visualization 54 programming 62 illustration 76 mapping 80 survey your options 88 wrapping up 89 4. Top r language resources to improve your data skills. It begins with a description of the huge growth of data and visualization in industry, news, and govt and opportunities for those who tell stories with data. Visualize this demonstrates how to explain data visually so that you can present your information in a way that is easy to understand and appealing. I started creating my own data science masters program using online resources. To create his chart, yau used data from the cdcs underlying cause of death database, a rather bleak collection of u. Nathan yau is a phd candidate in statistics at ucla and a lifelong data junkie. The cover design drew me in immediately and flicking through the pages i came across several really interesting visualisations that i wanted to know more about. Visualization that means something, by nathan yau is a good guide and reference book for any reader that needs to present data to an audience in proposals, in their own books or for persons. There is some interesting research about the usefulness of horizon graphs that i recommend. Yau investigates gathering, parsing, and formatting data and instructs readers on designing high quality graphics that explore and present patterns, outliers, and relationships.
Visualize this the flowingdata guide to design, visualization, and statistics nathan yau. Author bios nathan yau is a phd candidate in statistics at ucla and a lifelong data junkie. Tool, paper, article the list of graphics from the stanford group are much more contemporary than the examples from nathan yau, but still all of these examples use the same mechanism to visualize timeseries data by using one axis as a dimension for time. The flowing data guide to design, visualization, and statistics by nathan yau in epub, fb3, txt download ebook. In this book, nathan yau provides practical tips and stepbystep tutorials to formulate data to tell a story. The book is of course well illustrated, full in colors.
134 715 820 199 486 1159 1598 349 470 474 438 356 606 433 771 1239 1126 261 1078 168 393 682 1366 332 1085 1014 194 57 1198 766 341 279 1455 425 282 902 701 1096