Data Visualization: Principles and Practice, Second Edition
2015 | 617 Pages | ISBN: 1466585269 | PDF | 59 MB
This book explores the study of processing and visually representing data sets. Data visualization is closely related to information graphics, information visualization, scientific visualization, and statistical graphics. This second edition presents a better treatment of the relationship between traditional scientific visualization and information visualization, a description of the emerging field of visual analytics, and updated techniques using the GPU and new generations of software tools and packages. This edition is also enhanced with exercises and downloadable code and data sets.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. From Graphics To Visualization
3. Data Representation
4. The Visualization Pipeline
5. Scalar Visualization
6. Vector Visualization
7. Tensor Visualization
8. Domain-Modeling Techniques
9. Image Visualization
10. Volume Visualization
11. Information Visualization
12. Conclusion