Data Visualization

Kieran Healy

About this book

"This book provides students and researchers a hands-on introduction to the principles and practice of data visualization. It explains what makes some graphs succeed while others fail, how to make high-quality figures from data using powerful and reproducible methods, and how to think about data visualization in an honest and effective way. Data visualization builds the reader's expertise in ggplot2, a versatile visualization library for the R programming language ...."--Page 4 of cover.

Subjects

  • information visualization
  • programming languages (electronic computers)
  • r (computer program language)
  • visual analytics