Getting (more out of) Graphics: Practice and Principles of Data Visualisation [Paperback]

Preface

1. Introduction

Part 1: Graphics in Action

2. Graphics and Gapminder

3. Looking at the movies

4. Voting 46 times to choose a Presidential candidate

5. Measuring the speed of light

6. The modern Olympic Games in numbers

7. Re-viewing Bertins main example

8. Comparing chess players across the board

9. Results from surveys on gay rights

10. Who went up in space for how long?

11. Data in the sky at night

12. Psoriasis and the Quality of Life

13. Charging electric cars

14. Darwins Finches

15. Home or away: where do soccer players play?

16. Watching soccerthe English leagues

17. Fuel efficiency of cars in the USA

18. Differences amongst the Palmer penguins

19. Comparing tests for malaria

20. Are swimmers swimming faster?

21. Over 90 years running 90 km

22. Comparing software for facial recognition

23. Distinguishing shearwaters

24. When do road accidents with deer happen in Bavaria?

25. The Titanic Disaster

26. German Election 2021what happened?

Part 2: Advice on Graphics

27. Provenance and quality

28. Wrangling

29. Colour

30. Setting the scene

31. Ordering, sorting, and arranging

32. What affects interpretation?

33. Varieties of plots, developing plots

34. Conclusions and recommendations

References

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