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A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication
Michael Friendly
Howard Wainer
出版
Harvard University Press
, 2021-06-08
主題
Science / History
Computers / Data Science / Data Modeling & Design
Computers / History
Computers / Data Science / Data Visualization
Mathematics / General
Psychology / General
ISBN
0674975235
9780674975231
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FSEwEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
A comprehensive history of data visualizationÑits origins, rise, and effects on the ways we think about and solve problems.
With complex information everywhere, graphics have become indispensable to our daily lives. Navigation apps show real-time, interactive traffic data. A color-coded map of exit polls details election balloting down to the county level. Charts communicate stock market trends, government spending, and the dangers of epidemics.
A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication
tells the story of how graphics left the exclusive confines of scientific research and became ubiquitous. As data visualization spread, it changed the way we think.
Michael Friendly
and
Howard Wainer
take us back to the beginnings of graphic communication in the mid-seventeenth century, when the Dutch cartographer Michael Florent van Langren created the first chart of statistical data, which showed estimates of the distance from Rome to Toledo. By 1786 William Playfair had invented the line graph and bar chart to explain trade imports and exports. In the nineteenth century, the Ògolden ageÓ of data display, graphics found new uses in tracking disease outbreaks and understanding social issues. Friendly and Wainer make the case that the explosion in graphical communication both reinforced and was advanced by a cognitive revolution: visual thinking. Across disciplines, people realized that information could be conveyed more effectively by visual displays than by words or tables of numbers. Through stories and illustrations,
A History of Data Visualization and Graphic Communication
details the 400-year evolution of an intellectual framework that has become essential to both science and society at large.