New Book, Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization and Statistics, Published From Wiley

(PRWEB) July 15, 2011

Data is ever-increasing and can be overwhelming to organize in a way that makes sense to its audience. To mean anything, it must be presented in a way that enables people to interpret, analyze, and apply the information, and one of the best ways to do that is visually. The New York Times, for example, designs data graphics that allows readers to see what the data has to say and explore the data themselves. Now, Nathan Yau, a pioneer of this innovative approach, has written VISUALIZE THIS: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization and Statistics (Wiley; $ 39.99; July 2011; ISBN: 9780470944882) to offer readers dozens of ideas for telling a story with their own data presented in creative, visual ways.

With this full-color book, step-by-step tutorials are used to show readers how to visualize and tell stories with data. The author explains how to gather, parse, and format data and then design high quality graphics that help readers explore and present patterns, differences, and relationships. Beginning with a description of the huge growth of data and visualization in industry, news, and government the book reveals opportunities for those who tell stories with data. VISUALIZE THIS then moves on to actual human stories and trends in data and statistics. The technical part is covered with how to format data with code and readily available applications, and details tools to create data graphics for print and the Web like R, Illustrator, JavaScript, Flash/Actionscript, PHP, CSS, and HTML. Readers will learn how to:

New Book, Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization and Statistics, Published From Wiley