Georgetown Peabody Library

Visual insights, a practical guide to making sense of data, Katy Börner & David E. Polley

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Visual insights

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Katy Börner & David E. Polley

a practical guide to making sense of data

"In 2010, Börner published Atlas of Science: Visualizing what We Know with us, and the work found an audience across a wide range of readers. Although Katy is busy working on the second Atlas volume, she has taken her info viz talents to the street via an Indiana University MOOC. This course applies advanced data mining and visualization techniques to communicate temporal, geospatial, topical, and network data of IVMOOC13 teaching and learning, provides instructions on how to collaborate with external clients and presents the best 2013 project results, closes with an outlook on MOOC trends and opportunities. This book is for this course. The work is the core of her information visualization course and is intended to serve as a stand-alone resource and how-to guide for those seeking to learn the tricks of information visualization. Part "how-to" book and part primer in data and information across the disciplines, Börner's work provides the perfect text for beginner mastery of the topic"--, Provided by publisher

Visualization framework and workflow design -- Temporal data -- Geospatial data -- Topical data -- Tree data -- Network data -- Dynamic visualizations and deployment -- Case studies. Understanding the diffusion of non-emergency call systems; Examining the success of World of warcraft game player activity; Using point of view cameras to study student-teacher interactions; Phylet: an interactive tree of life visualization; Isis: mapping the geospatial and topical distribution of The history of science journal -- Visualizing the impact of the Hive NYC Learning Network -- Discussion and outlook -- Appendix