Information visualization Books
HarperCollins Publishers The Infographic Bible Visualising the Drama of
Book SynopsisAncient scriptures from the most popular book of all time, revolutionised to reveal its themes and narratives for a modern generation.Billions of people across the world find solace, meaning and wisdom from reading the Bible. But for some, it can be a difficult book to engage with and understand. In this this pioneering book Karen Sawrey shows you the bible as you never seen it before, using powerful infographics, with data sourced by experts in their fields, to communicate the key biblical themes and narratives. The Info Graphic Bible focuses on the meta narrative, the key points of the major stories and themes, to give the reader insight into the bigger story and help you understand the complex or abstract themes in a relevant way.Through revealing the ancient traditions, showing connections between Old and New Testament themes, and profiling important characters, you are left with a deeper and more memorable interpretation of the scriptures. Covering themes such as the First Family Trade ReviewSHORTLISTED FOR THE CHRISTIAN RETAILERS TOGETHER AWARD FOR BEST BIBLE AND BEST BOOK OF 2019 ‘Awesome and ambitious … an elegant revisioning of the most read book in the world’ David McCandless [Author of Information is Beautiful] ‘This is an exciting and innovative project which will open many people’s eyes to hitherto unsuspected dimensions of the biblical story’ NT Wright [Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, University of St Andrews]
£21.25
HarperCollins Publishers Knowledge is Beautiful
Book SynopsisIn this mind-blowing follow-up to the bestselling Information is Beautiful, the king of infographics David McCandless uses spectacular visuals to reveal unexpected insights into how the world really works. We are living in the Information Age, in which we are constantly bombarded with data - on television, in print and online. How can we relate to this mind-numbing overload? Enter David McCandless and his amazing infographics: simple, elegant ways to understand information too complex or abstract to grasp any way but visually. In his unique signature style, he creates dazzling displays that blend facts with their connections, contexts and relationships, making information meaningful, entertaining - and beautiful. Taking infographics to the next level, his new book Knowledge is Beautiful is an endlessly fascinating spin through the world of visualized data, which offers a deeper, more wide-ranging look at the world and its history. Covering everything from dog breeds anTrade ReviewPRAISE FOR INFORMATION IS BEAUTIFUL: ‘Unbelievably brilliant’ Vogue ‘(A) terrific compendium of visual information’ Shortlist ‘In this intriguing book, David McCandless presents a cavalcade of compelling and colourful graphics, each one innovative in its attempt to offer a new perspective on some of our most pervasive twenty-first century obsessions’ Time Out ‘Stunning’ The Sunday Times ‘Thought-provoking, lovingly-crafted and informative; a handsome book that anyone would be grateful to receive’ Picked as one of the best science books of the year in Arts & Books, Independent on Sunday ‘What David McCandless has done is genius… dry data is transformed into small pieces of pop art that engage so much you end up learning more, without realising it. The ideal encyclopaedia for the information age.' Red Handed
£23.40
Manning Publications Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow
Book SynopsisPipelines can be challenging to manage, especially when your data has to flow through a collection of application components, servers, and cloud services. Airflow lets you schedule, restart, and backfill pipelines, and its easy-to-use UI and workflows with Python scripting has users praising its incredible flexibility. Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow takes you through best practices for creating pipelines for multiple tasks, including data lakes, cloud deployments, and data science. Data Pipelines with Apache Airflow teaches you the ins-and-outs of the Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) that power Airflow, and how to write your own DAGs to meet the needs of your projects. With complete coverage of both foundational and lesser-known features, when you’re done you’ll be set to start using Airflow for seamless data pipeline development and management. Key Features Framework foundation and best practices Airflow's execution and dependency system Testing Airflow DAGs Running Airflow in production For data-savvy developers, DevOps and data engineers, and system administrators with intermediate Python skills. About the technology Data pipelines are used to extract, transform and load data to and from multiple sources, routing it wherever it’s needed -- whether that’s visualisation tools, business intelligence dashboards, or machine learning models. Airflow streamlines the whole process, giving you one tool for programmatically developing and monitoring batch data pipelines, and integrating all the pieces you use in your data stack. Bas Harenslak and Julian de Ruiter are data engineers with extensive experience using Airflow to develop pipelines for major companies including Heineken, Unilever, and Booking.com. Bas is a committer, and both Bas and Julian are active contributors to Apache Airflow.
£29.99
Practical Reporting Inc. Practical Charts: The Essential Guide to Creating
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£32.24
ESRI Press Cartography.
Book SynopsisA lavishly illustrated reference guide, Cartography. by Kenneth Field is an inspiring and creative companion along the nonlinear journey toward making a great map. This sage compendium for contemporary mapmakers distills the essence of cartography into useful topics, organized for convenience in finding the specific idea or method you need. Unlike books targeted to deep scholarly discourse of cartographic theory, this book provides sound, visually compelling information that translates into practical and useful tools for modern mapmaking. At the intersection of science and art, this book serves as a guidepost for designing an accurate and effective map.Trade Review"What Kenneth Field has created here is a brilliant reference book on behalf of our field of cartography. Finally! A book that truly represents Cartography in 2018." -- Christopher Wesson, The Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers * Christopher Wesson *"Read the book for pragmatic advice or to braden your horizon; for me, it did both." -- Menno-Jan Kraak, president of the International Cartographic Association (ICA); professor, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands; author of Mapping Time and coauthor of Cartography, Visualization of Geospatial Data * Menno-Jan Kraak *"An Impressively creative and useful scholarly contribution." -- Mark Monmonier, author of How to Lie with Maps, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Syracuse University, NY. * Mark Monmonier *Table of Contents Introduction Making maps is easy Making great maps is hard 1. Maps as Information Products The nature of an information product What is design? Trends in map design Functional design Designer, data and audience Engineers vs Designers vs Map Makers Simplicity and complexity Form and Function Dispersal and Layering Telling stories (metaphors and simile) Minimalism and efficiency Novelty or redundancy Data density Originality Emotional response Integrity Self-explanatory focus Wayfinding maps Experiential maps Numerical and statistical maps Production paradigms Viewing paradigms 2. Perceptions and Conventions The way the eye and brain works Vizualising for the mind Logically coding points Pictograms vs Icons vs Symbols Logically coding lines Logically coding areas Connotations of form Connotations of colour Mixing and using colours Colour constraints Connotations of value Working in greyscale Connotations of typeface Labelling hierarchies Making connections on the map Consistent denotation Innovation and familiarity Compare and contrast Ways of seeing Navigating the page Navigating the screen Navigating the mobile device Factual understanding vs Interpretation 3. Objective Dimensions Information overload Selection by feature type Selection by numbers Dimensional comparison Measurement of Earth Scale Distances Spheres and elipses Datums Latitude and longitude Geographic coordinates Projected coordinates Numerical integrity Making numbers meaningful Geographical distortions Projection distortions Projection families Choosing a good projection Compromising geographical form Geography as a diagram Measurement and proportions Absolute data Percentages, ratios and rates Comparatives Summarising data distributions Classifying data 4. Structure and Organisation Dispersal vs Layering Grids in information design Organisation and response Generalising features Styling features Graphical hierarchies Contrast Actors and support cast Repetition Proximity Balance Staging hierarchies Which way is up? Signs and pointers Focussing attention Distractions Language and phraseology Choosing a font Serif Sans serif Font efficiency: width, height, size Font efficiency: structure, form, direction, colour Typeface differentiation Legibility Type placement The small print (marginalia) 5. Pick’n’Map Choropleth Isarithmic Dot Density Binning Dasymetric Value by alpha Cartogram Flow Network mapping Schematic diagrams Isochrones Graduated Symbol Proportional Symbol Unique Values Bivariate mapping Multivariate mapping Embedded charts Small multiples Chernof Faces Proportional text 6. Different viewpoints Planimetric Panoramic Isometric Aspect Prism maps 3D isolines Mapping change Animation Dynamic variables Temporal 7. Going digital – the UI/UX challenge Map Mashups The 2 second rule Resolution Size Performance Responsive maps Interaction Capabilities Native v Browser apps Partial attention Time and day Inputs Connectivity Currency Personalising the map experience User testing Eye tracking Wireframes Workflow Prototypes Development technologies
£59.79
Princeton University Press Data Visualization
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Healy’s] prose is engaging and chatty, and the style of instruction is unpretentious and practical . . . This single volume represents an excellent entry point for those wishing to upskill their abilities in data visualization."---Paul Cuffe, IEEE Transactions"Undoubtedly, this book is an excellent introduction to an essential tool for anyone who needs to collect and present data." * Conservation Biology *
£35.70
Springer International Publishing AG ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis
Book SynopsisThis new edition to the classic book by ggplot2 creator Hadley Wickham highlights compatibility with knitr and RStudio. ggplot2 is a data visualization package for R that helps users create data graphics, including those that are multi-layered, with ease. With ggplot2, it's easy to: produce handsome, publication-quality plots with automatic legends created from the plot specification superimpose multiple layers (points, lines, maps, tiles, box plots) from different data sources with automatically adjusted common scales add customizable smoothers that use powerful modeling capabilities of R, such as loess, linear models, generalized additive models, and robust regression save any ggplot2 plot (or part thereof) for later modification or reuse create custom themes that capture in-house or journal style requirements and that can easily be applied to multiple plots approach a graph from a visual perspective, thinking about how each component of the data is represented on the final plot This book will be useful to everyone who has struggled with displaying data in an informative and attractive way. Some basic knowledge of R is necessary (e.g., importing data into R). ggplot2 is a mini-language specifically tailored for producing graphics, and you'll learn everything you need in the book. After reading this book you'll be able to produce graphics customized precisely for your problems, and you'll find it easy to get graphics out of your head and on to the screen or page.Trade Review“The versatility and efficiency of ggplot have led to the development of ggplot2 and this book which overviews the standard use and presentation secrets of functions developed in the last 5 years. … The book is written in an accessible manner and it is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers with some R experience. All theoretical concepts are accompanied by code making it easy to learn by reproducing the examples.” (Irina Ioana Mohorianu, zbMATH 1397.62006, 2018)“The book is an excellent and very comprehensive manual of … one of the most popular R packages. It is currently the only book describing ggplot2 in such depth. The book contains many examples and is very nicely illustrated, demonstrating the strength of the package.” (Klaus Galensa, Computing Reviews, May, 2017)Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Getting Started with ggplot2.- Toolbox.- Mastering the Grammar.- Building a Plot Layer by Layer.- Scales, Axes and Legends.- Positioning.- Themes.- Data Analysis.- Data Transformation.- Modelling for Visualisation.- Programming with ggplot2.- Index.- R Code Index.
£37.99
Manning Publications D3.js in Action, 2E
Book SynopsisD3 allows developers to create scalable graphs for any modern browser. They start with a structure, dataset, or algorithm and programmatically generate static, interactive, or animated images that responsively scale to any screen. D3.js in Action, Second Edition is completely revised and updated for D3 v4 and ES6. It's a practical tutorial for creating interactive graphics and data-driven applications using D3. Readers will start with in-depth explanations of D3's out-of-the-box layouts, along with dozens of realworld use cases that align with different types of visualizations. By the end, readers will be ready to integrate D3.js into their web development process and add data visualization to transform any site or internal application. Key Features: · Completely revised and updated · Practical tutorial · In-depth explanations Readers need basic HTML, CSS, and JavaScript skills. No experience with D3 or SVG is required. About the Technology: D3.js is a JavaScript library that allows data to be represented graphically.
£32.39
The Pragmatic Programmers Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up: Six
Book SynopsisBusinesses own more data than ever before, but it's of no value if you don't know how to use it. Data governance manages the people, processes, and strategy needed for deploying data projects to production. But doing it well is far from easy: Less than one fourth of business leaders say their organizations are data driven. In Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up, you'll build a cross-functional strategy to create roadmaps and stewardship for data-focused projects, embed data governance into your engineering practice, and put processes in place to monitor data after deployment. In the last decade, the amount of data people produced grew 3,000 percent. Most organizations lack the strategy to clean, collect, organize, and automate data for production-ready projects. Without effective data governance, most businesses will keep failing to gain value from the mountain of data that's available to them. There's a plethora of content intended to help DataOps and DevOps teams reach production, but 90 percent of projects trained with big data fail to reach production because they lack governance. This book shares six steps you can take to build a data governance strategy from scratch. You'll find a data framework, pull together a team of data stewards, build a data governance team, define your roadmap, weave data governance into your development process, and monitor your data in production Whether you're a chief data officer or individual contributor, this book will show you how to manage up, get the buy-in you need to build data governance, find the right colleagues to co-create data governance, and keep them engaged for the long haul.
£21.59
Practical Reporting Inc. More Practical Charts
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£16.99
O'Reilly Media Tableau Strategies
Book SynopsisIf you want to increase Tableau's value to your organization, this practical book has your back. Authors Ann Jackson and Luke Stanke guide data analysts through recipes for solving real-world analytics problems using Tableau.
£45.04
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Misc
Book SynopsisHave you ever wondered? How it feels to be bitten by a bullet ant? Which literary masterpiece was eaten by its author''s dog? When town planning ceased to be an Olympic event? Where you should put a grockle box? What the fastest sporting projectile is? Whether it would be nice to live on Mars? Why football, beards and lip-synching at weddings have all been bannedThen you need Misc.Misc. is a playful modern take on the classic miscellany, a delightfully random collection of facts discovered by the creators of Delayed Gratification magazine. Inside you''ll find a joyful abundance of things you didn''t know you needed to know.In an era when it feels like you need to adopt the brace position before reading the morning''s headlines, this is a fun and frivolous book in which no one dies (except for Rasputin).Designed to be dipped into and revisited time and time again, M
£11.69
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc Modeling and Control of Drug Delivery Systems
Book SynopsisTable of Contents1. Hepatitis C Virus Epidemic Control Using a Nonlinear Adaptive Strategy 2. Integral Sliding Mode Control of Immune Response for Kidney Transplantation 3. Smart Drug Delivery Systems 4. Polymeric Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems 5. Stimuli-Responsive Polymers as Smart Drug Delivery Systems 6. Efficacy of Polymer-Based Wound Dressings in Chronic Wounds 7. Recent Progress of Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems for Biomedical Applications 8. Towards the Development of Delivery Systems of Bioactive Compounds With Eyes Set on Pharmacokinetics 9. Nanofiber: An Immerging Novel Drug Delivery System 10. Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Drug Delivery Systems 11. Nanoparticle Drug Delivery: An Advanced Approach for Highly Competent and Multifunctional Therapeutic Treatment 12. Targeted Drug Delivery: Advancements, Applications, and Challenges 13. Strategies-Based Intrathecal Targeted Drug Delivery System for Effective Therapy, Modeling, and Controlled Release Action 14. Biopolymer-Based Hydrogel Wound Dressing 15. Novel Controlled Release Pulmonary Drug Delivery Systems: Current updates and Challenges 16. Nanoparticle Formulations and Delivery Strategies for Sustained Drug Release in the Lungs 17. Current Perspectives on Mycosynthesis of Nanoparticles and Their Biomedical application 18. Solid Oral Controlled-Release Formulations 19. Advanced Solid Oral Controlled-Release Formulations 20. Mucoadhesive Polymers: Gateway to Innovative Drug Delivery
£74.96
MIT Press Ltd Interface The MIT Press
Book SynopsisA cultural theory of the interface as a relation that is both ubiquitous and elusive, drawing on disciplines from cultural theory to architecture.In this book, Branden Hookway considers the interface not as technology but as a form of relationship with technology. The interface, Hookway proposes, is at once ubiquitous and hidden from view. It is both the bottleneck through which our relationship to technology must pass and a productive encounter embedded within the use of technology. It is a site of contestation—between human and machine, between the material and the social, between the political and the technological—that both defines and elides differences.A virtuoso in multiple disciplines, Hookway offers a theory of the interface that draws on cultural theory, political theory, philosophy, art, architecture, new media, and the history of science and technology. He argues that the theoretical mechanism of the interface offers a powerful approach to quest
£21.60
MIT Press Ltd SelfTracking MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
Book SynopsisWhat happens when people turn their everyday experience into data: an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of self-tracking.People keep track. In the eighteenth century, Benjamin Franklin kept charts of time spent and virtues lived up to. Today, people use technology to self-track: hours slept, steps taken, calories consumed, medications administered. Ninety million wearable sensors were shipped in 2014 to help us gather data about our lives. This book examines how people record, analyze, and reflect on this data, looking at the tools they use and the communities they become part of. Gina Neff and Dawn Nafus describe what happens when people turn their everyday experience—in particular, health and wellness-related experience—into data, and offer an introduction to the essential ideas and key challenges of using these technologies. They consider self-tracking as a social and cultural phenomenon, describing not only the use of data as a kind
£17.25
Princeton University Press Data Visualization
Book SynopsisTrade Review"[Healy’s] prose is engaging and chatty, and the style of instruction is unpretentious and practical . . . This single volume represents an excellent entry point for those wishing to upskill their abilities in data visualization."---Paul Cuffe, IEEE Transactions"Undoubtedly, this book is an excellent introduction to an essential tool for anyone who needs to collect and present data." * Conservation Biology *
£79.20
Taylor & Francis Ltd Data Visualization in Excel
Book SynopsisThis book closes the gap between what people think Excel can do and what they can achieve in the tool. Over the past few years, recognition of the importance of effectively visualizing data has led to an explosion of data analysis and visualization software tools. But for many people, Microsoft Excel continues to be the workhorse for their data visualization needs, not to mention the only tool that many data workers have access to. Although Excel is not a specialist data visualization platform, it does have strong capabilities. The default chart types do not need to be the limit of the toolâs data visualization capabilities, and users can extend its features by understanding some key elements and strategies. Data Visualization in Excel provides a step-by-step guide to creating more advanced and often more effective data visualizations in Excel and is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to create better, more effective, and more engaging data visualizations.Trade Review"Microsoft Excel is already installed on 750 million computers. But creating modern visualizations using Excel charts seems impossible. In this book, Jonathan Schwabish gives you the step-by-step instructions to make Excel charts do what most people (including me) previously thought was impossible in Excel. Every chapter, you will learn how to make visualizations that most people assume require Python or R."--Bill Jelen, Excel MVP and publisher of MrExcel.com “Those who expanded their graphicacy with Schwabish's Better Data Visualizations are going to love the follow up, in which Jon outlines how to make graphs using the ubiquitous Microsoft Excel. Readers will appreciate Jon's pragmatic examples, easy-to-follow instructions and entertaining writing. If you need to communicate with data and lack confidence making graphs in Excel, I urge you to add Data Visualization in Excel to your library!”--Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, founder and CEO of storytelling with data (SWD)“Wow, just wow. One book that explains how to make all the fancy, powerful charts you see in good ol' Excel. If you want to impress your boss with Excel charting wizardry, this is THE BOOK for you. Not only does the book explain the chart construction process, it also provides guidance on designing great outputs. I wish I had this book when I started my data analyst journey. A must buy. Highly recommended.”--Chandoo (Purna Duggirala), Microsoft MVP, Chandoo.org"This book takes you well beyond the defaults of Excel charting. It shows you how to apply principles and best practices of data visualization in an accessible way. In the process it streamlines the use of Excel while enabling the creation of much more advanced graphics."--Jon Peltier, Peltier Technical Services “Thank you Jonathan Schwabish for giving us such a clear how-to book! Data Visualization in Excel shows us how far we can go with Excel to make data visualization insights accessible to a much broader audience! I am making this my go-to textbook for teaching myself and my students to create better, more effective, and different graphs in Excel to operationalize the data visualization concepts and strategies the earlier books have inspired in us.”-- Kosali Simon, Distinguished Professor, Indiana University, O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs"There aren’t many places where the cliché “think outside the box” can be applied with such propriety (and benefits) than when making charts in Excel. If you go beyond its poor chart library and defaults, there is a whole world to discover, and Jon’s new book is a great journey companion. This detailed step-by-step tutorial will show you how to take advantage of Excel’s flexibility, how to use design and formatting options far from their original intent and how to visualize data directly on the spreadsheet, going even further away from the chart library. On top of this, Jon is a communicator and a data visualization expert, so his many examples are relevant (many analytical tasks can benefit from them) and designed for effectiveness applying sound data visualization guidelines."-- Jorge Camões, data visualization consultant, founder of Excelcharts.com"For data visualisation practitioners looking to hone their charting craft there are three core questions: what, when, and how. What different options exist. When should I use. How do I make them. Jon’s bestseller "Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks” addresses the first two of those enquiries, and much more besides, but this excellent new text gives explicit solutions for the matter of how. For Excel users, beginners or advanced, this book will become an essential practical companion. You’ll learn how to elegantly master the standard charting functions in the most effective and efficient way, but you’ll also discover how to truly make Excel sing, finding novel approaches and clever workarounds to expand your visual vocabulary even further."--Andy Kirk, independent consultant, educator, and author, founder of visualisingdata.com"I found this book 20 years too late! Seriously, I wish I had this book a long time ago, for its rich collection of tutorials, best practices, lessons learned, and principles of data visualization using Excel. From broken stacked bars to Gantt charts, heatmaps, tile grid maps, and waffle plots (and so much more from A to Z), the many detailed visualization examples in this book will provide tremendous benefit in the workplace whenever and wherever data storytelling, visual analytics, or data-driven decision insights are required. Excel users from beginners to experts will discover useful data visualization examples, corresponding detailed instructions, and perhaps some secrets of Excel here in this wonderful book."--Kirk Borne, Chief Science Officer, DataPrime Inc. "Jonathan Schwabish taught me what constitutes a good chart. In this incredibly useful volume, he teaches me how to make a good chart in Excel. A step-by-step guide – practical, easy to follow and (of course) well-illustrated."--David Wessel, Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy, The Brookings Institution "Finally, a comprehensive data visualisation book for Excel that’s detailed enough that a relative beginner can use it, and extensive enough that an experienced user will also discover tips and learn valuable Excel techniques and data visualisation best practices."--Mynda Treacy, MyOnlineTrainingHub.com"Data visualization has an ever-growing toolbox of applications and programming languages for creating charts, but some may come with steep learning curves, some may require coding skills, and some resources may lack the full range of functionality we really need. The one, often overlooked tool familiar and often available to most of us is Microsoft Excel. In this companion book to Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers and Wonks, Jon Schwabish systematically and expertly shows us how to create a wide variety of visualization types, from simple heatmaps right through to more complex examples such as raincloud plots and Marimekko charts, each with detailed tutorials and with all companion resources available via his website. This book first opens your eyes to the wide range of visualization possibilities that were most likely available to you all along in Excel, then promptly equips you with the skills to create them all."--Neil Richards, Lead Business Intelligence Analyst at JLL, former Knowledge Director for the Data Visualization SocietyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE. 1. Introduction. 2. How to Use This Book. 3. The Philosophy of Data Visualization in Excel. 4. Introduction to Making Graphs in Excel. 5. Fundamental Formulas Used in Building Your Graphs. 6. Building a Custom Color Palette in Excel. PART TWO: MAKING GRAPHS IN EXCEL. 7. Sparklines. 8. Heatmap. 9. Stripe Chart. 10. Waffle Chart. 11. Gantt Chart. 12. Comparing Values with Two Graph Types. 13. Broken Stacked Bar Chart. 14. Diverging Bar Chart. 15. Block Shading (Same Frequency). 16. Block Shading (Different Frequencies). 17. Mark an Event with a Line. 18. Dot Plot. 19. Slope Chart. 20. Overlaid Gridlines. 21. Lollipop Chart. 22. Bullet Chart. 23. Tile Grid Map. 24. Histogram. 25. Marimekko Chart. 26. Cycle Plot. 27. Strip Chart. 28. Raincloud Plot. 29. Making Better Tables. PART THREE: MOVING VISUALS OUT OF EXCEL. 30. Exporting Graphs from Excel. 31. Redesigns and Examples. 32. Conclusion. Appendix 1. Color Tools. Appendix 2. Data Visualization Tools. Appendix 3. Additional Excel Resources. Appendix 4. Quick Instructions List. References. Index.
£25.64
CRC Press Shaping a DesignedUp Organisation
Book SynopsisThe special sauce that makes this book an essential reading is that, in all the explanations of how to navigate the organisation, she never loses sight of the fact that we are talking about humans relating to other humans. Shaping a DesignedUp Organisation is, in this sense, truly human-centred.âAndy Polaine, Design Leadership CoachAlthough many organisations talk about being design driven, customer centric and human centred, the majority are still teetering on the periphery of understanding what this really means. For many, design is treated as a tick-box exercise, and while others might get it intellectually, they donât feel or live it as designers doâand yet they must if they want to lead in this competitive world.Shaping a DesignedUp Organisation was born out of both love and frustrationâlove for what design brings to people and organisations, and pure frustration because itâs still so hard to get many organisations to shift left on design maturity. Moving organisations towards greater âœdesign maturityâ is not just about hiring more designers; itâs about a shift in mindset, a commitment to seeing the world from a human-centered perspective and understanding that design is more than just making things look good. Itâs about problem-solving at every level and can add value across all the points on the business start model.Whether youâre in product, tech, business, or design, youâll find practical ways in this book to integrate design into the heart of your organisation. With this book, you can make sure that design doesnât just get involved when there is UI to be designed but is involved when there is a problem, and that problem impacts a human. Design doesnât sit on the surface but is involved from the ground upâsolving the right problems, balancing business goals, and enhancing the human experience. Growing design maturity is a team effort.If youâre ready to learn how to advocate for design, understand its broader value, or drive your organisation toward a design-led approach, then welcome to the journey. Dive into this book and make change happen
£37.04
O'Reilly Media Alteryx Designer The Definitive Guide
Book SynopsisThis practical book shows you how to master all areas of Alteryx Designer quickly. Author and Alteryx ACE Joshua Burkhow starts with the basics of building a workflow, then introduces more than 200 tools for working with intermediate and advanced analytics functionality.
£47.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Tableau For Dummies
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part 1: Tackling Tableau Basics 5 Chapter 1: Learning Tableau Lingo 7 Chapter 2: Venturing into Tableau Versions 25 Chapter 3: Mapping Out the Data Journey 39 Part 2: Prepping Data in Tableau 55 Chapter 4: Connecting Your Data 57 Chapter 5: Ready, Set, Data Prep: Readying Your Data for Prime Time 85 Chapter 6: Structuring Data for Liftoff 115 Part 3: Telling the Data Story in Tableau 129 Chapter 7: Touring Tableau Desktop 131 Chapter 8: Visualization Foundations in Tableau 161 Chapter 9: Analytic Practices in Action. 197 Chapter 10: Showcasing Data with Dashboards and Stories 213 Part 4: Showcasing Your Data in the Tableau Cloud 237 Chapter 11: Collaboration and Publishing with Tableau Cloud 239 Chapter 12: Administration in Tableau Cloud 257 Part 5: The Part of Tens 275 Chapter 13: Ten Tableau Must-Know Function Types 277 Chapter 14: Ten Helpful Tableau Resources 289 Index 295
£19.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Information Design Unbound
Book SynopsisSheila Pontis is lecturer at Princeton University (USA), honorary research associate at UCL (UK), and partner at Sense Information Design. Since 2002, she teaches and facilitates workshops on information design, design research, ethnography, and design thinking in Argentina, Spain, the UK and the US. She has produced work for diverse organisations in the US, South America and Europe including Pfizer, TfL, Elsevier, Unilever and NHS. Michael Babwahsingh is an information designer and partner at Sense Information Design. His experience spans strategic design and innovation, branding, and communication design for corporate and non-profit clients. He has taught design thinking at NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service. Michael received a BA in Art and Graphic Design from Moravian College.Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. Context 1. Understanding information design 1.1 Finding our way every day 1.2 Building a working definition 1.3 Mapping out the landscape 1.4 Seeing the bigger picture 1.5 What is effective information design? 1.6 Tracing the historical roots 1.7 Information design comes of age Exercises 2. How information designers work 2.1 What makes an information designer? 2.2 A collaborative, cross-disciplinary practice 2.3 Ethics and professional conduct 2.4 Working with the information design process 2.5 The scale of information design challenges Exercises 3. How we process visual information 3.1 The visual information processing system 3.2 Vision 3.3 Perception 3.4 Learning and retrieval 3.5 Thinking and problem-solving Exercises 4. How we create meaning 4.1 Understanding culture 4.2 Signs, the basic units of meaning 4.3 Rhetoric and communication 4.4 Society, identity, and representation Exercises PART II. Skills 5. Thinking and working visually 5.1 Giving shape to thought 5.2 Assembling your visual toolkit 5.3 Learning to sketch 5.4 Using diagrams to think 5.5 Making use of space and form Exercises 6. Learning through research 6.1 A structured search for knowledge 6.2 Understanding the subject matter 6.3 Understanding the audience 6.4 Planning out your research 6.5 Collecting data Exercises 7. Sensemaking for communication 7.1 Planning before designing 7.2 Constructing knowledge 7.3 Organizing information Exercises 8. Designing with clarity 8.1 Focusing on effectiveness 8.2 Content 8.3 Structure 8.4 Presentation 8.5 Engagement 8.6 Performance Exercises PART III. Practice 9. Communications 9.1 Working with communications 9.2 Project Re:form 9.3 GAIA Amazonas icon system 9.4 Emergency ventilator instructions 9.5 We Are Here: An Atlas of Aotearoa 10. Experiences 10.1 Working with experiences 10.2 Nemus Futurum interactive visitor experience 10.3 SEPTA wayfinding master plan 10.4 Skicircus wayfinding system 10.5 Seat at the Table interactive exhibit 11. Organizations 11.1 Working with organizations 11.2 Oregon Museum of Science and Industry vision and strategy 11.3 Integrated journey maps 12. Systems 12.1 Working with systems 12.2 Understanding elderly isolation in Pittsburgh 12.3 Systems approach to youth employment in Bhutan 12.4 Navigating the complexity of cancer diagnosis Resources Bibliography Index Acknowledgments Image credits
£28.49
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Critical Visualization
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDebunking the idea that data is ever ‘raw’ or unbiased, this book brings information anxiety to a new level as it goes deep into the underlying power structures at play in the assemblage of data and the motivations of those who amass it. Hall and Dávila explain how design’s focus on clarity and statistical accuracy can serve to enhance dominant narratives inherent in the data and challenge designers to activate their agency to visualize the kind of world in which we want to live. This should be required reading in any data visualization or information design curriculum. -- Thomas Starr, Professor of Graphic and Information Design, Northeastern University, USAHall and Dávila make a compelling argument for a critical approach to data visualization. Through a comprehensive survey of extant literature, a rereading of canonical images through decolonizing frameworks, and discussion of highly topical debates, they arrive at a rich examination of current projects drawn from a wide array of activities. They address self-quantification, smart cities, emotional cartography, and a whole host of specific and activist interventions in conventional data practices. Ultimately, they argue for visualizations that might create alternatives to dominant conventions and the oppressive power asymmetries of the status quo. -- Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor of Information Studies, UCLA, USAWith acuity and depth, Hall and Dávila demonstrate just how much history, culture and context matter for the design and interpretation of data visualization. Their book is timely and important, and will usher in a new era of critical data practice. -- Lauren Klein, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University, USATable of Contents1. An Introduction to Critical Visualization Defining the field Looking at Visualization beyond Western Paradigms Alternative Western perspectives: Distributed Cognition and Humanistic Approaches 2. Disruptive Histories Positivism and Objectivity A History of Progress Critical Cartography: a 'Defining Moment' A Few Examples: Not a Canon - Haptic Visualization: the Quipu (1200-1532) - Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship (1789) - Polar Area Diagram (1859) - Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (1802-1875) - Data Visualization at the Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Du Bois (1900) - Community-building with Isotype: Otto and Marie Neurath Conclusion Focus: Anna Ridler, Myriad (Tulips) 2018 3. Making Data Qualitative and Quantitative Data The Role of Categorization Focus: Data4Change - Keepiton - Hear the Blind Spot - Perceiving Yemen 4. Data and the Self Taylorism Within? Comic Critique What is Normal? Biometrics and Risk-Profiling Challenging Norms The Examined Life Focus: Margaret Pearce and Michael Hermann, They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places, and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada, 1603-1616 5. Data and the City Participatory planning: HECTOR Focus: Heath Bunting: Status Project 6. Aesthetics and Representation Aesthetics and Representation Representation as Translation 7. Beyond Critical Visualization Practice
£86.83
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Critical Visualization
Book SynopsisInformation may be beautiful, but our decisions about the data we choose to represent and how we represent it are never neutral. This insightful history traces how data visualization accompanied modern technologies of war, colonialism and the management of social issues of poverty, health and crime. Discussion is based around examples of visualization, from the ancient Andean information technology of the quipu to contemporary projects that show the fate of our rubbish and take a participatory approach to visualizing cities. This analysis places visualization in its theoretical and cultural contexts, and provides a critical framework for understanding the history of information design with new directions for contemporary practice.Trade ReviewDebunking the idea that data is ever ‘raw’ or unbiased, this book brings information anxiety to a new level as it goes deep into the underlying power structures at play in the assemblage of data and the motivations of those who amass it. Hall and Dávila explain how design’s focus on clarity and statistical accuracy can serve to enhance dominant narratives inherent in the data and challenge designers to activate their agency to visualize the kind of world in which we want to live. This should be required reading in any data visualization or information design curriculum. -- Thomas Starr, Professor of Graphic and Information Design, Northeastern University, USAHall and Dávila make a compelling argument for a critical approach to data visualization. Through a comprehensive survey of extant literature, a rereading of canonical images through decolonizing frameworks, and discussion of highly topical debates, they arrive at a rich examination of current projects drawn from a wide array of activities. They address self-quantification, smart cities, emotional cartography, and a whole host of specific and activist interventions in conventional data practices. Ultimately, they argue for visualizations that might create alternatives to dominant conventions and the oppressive power asymmetries of the status quo. -- Johanna Drucker, Distinguished Professor of Information Studies, UCLA, USAWith acuity and depth, Hall and Dávila demonstrate just how much history, culture and context matter for the design and interpretation of data visualization. Their book is timely and important, and will usher in a new era of critical data practice. -- Lauren Klein, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Departments of English and Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University, USATable of Contents1. An Introduction to Critical Visualization Defining the field Looking at Visualization beyond Western Paradigms Alternative Western perspectives: Distributed Cognition and Humanistic Approaches 2. Disruptive Histories Positivism and Objectivity A History of Progress Critical Cartography: a 'Defining Moment' A Few Examples: Not a Canon - Haptic Visualization: the Quipu (1200-1532) - Plan and Sections of a Slave Ship (1789) - Polar Area Diagram (1859) - Great Trigonometrical Survey of India (1802-1875) - Data Visualization at the Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Du Bois (1900) - Community-building with Isotype: Otto and Marie Neurath Conclusion Focus: Anna Ridler, Myriad (Tulips) 2018 3. Making Data Qualitative and Quantitative Data The Role of Categorization Focus: Data4Change - Keepiton - Hear the Blind Spot - Perceiving Yemen 4. Data and the Self Taylorism Within? Comic Critique What is Normal? Biometrics and Risk-Profiling Challenging Norms The Examined Life Focus: Margaret Pearce and Michael Hermann, They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places, and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada, 1603-1616 5. Data and the City Participatory planning: HECTOR Focus: Heath Bunting: Status Project 6. Aesthetics and Representation Aesthetics and Representation Representation as Translation 7. Beyond Critical Visualization Practice
£23.74
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Making Data
Book SynopsisIan Gwilt is Professor of Design at the University of South Australia.Trade ReviewA valuable counterpoint to the popular idea that data visualization is beautiful, this book provides a thoughtful and pragmatic position on material and experiential manifestations of data. It contains an array of perspectives on the subject, including the history of data’s material manifestations and the challenges of achieving human-centred design with increasingly complex socio-technical problems. -- Peter A. Hall, Reader in Graphic Design, UAL Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon, UKThis is a fascinating anthology of fresh thinking on how we can understand our world through data. Materialist, sensory and phenomenological approaches to knowledge — long practiced in the Arts — are now having increasing impact on other disciplines. This book provides numerous examples and ideas on how materializing information can lead to more nuanced understandings and heightened engagement with data. Covering theory, practice and methodologies, this is an expansive and unique collection on the materialization of digital information -- Jon McCormack, SensiLab Director, Monash University, AustraliaTable of ContentsForeword, Karel van der Waarde (Graphic Design Consultant, Belgium) Introduction, Ian Gwilt (University of South Australia) Part One: Theories 1. Data Objects Thinking With Your Hands, Adrien Segal (California College of the Arts, USA) 2. Shifting Data between the Material and the Virtual is Not an Immaterial Matter, Dew Harrison (University of Wolverhampton, UK) 3. Data as Environment: Physicalization Strategies for Communicating Environmental Data, Dietmar Offenhuber (Northeastern University, USA) and Laura Perovich (MIT, USA) 4. Designing Explanations of Data-based Interactions in Socio-Technical Systems, Aaron Fry (Parsons School of Design, USA) 5. Moving Data: Visualizing Human and Nonhuman Movement Artistically, Michele Barker and Anna Munster (University of New South Wales, Australia) Part Two: Practices 6. Uncanny Landscapes: Experiential Encounters with Ecological Data, Zoë Sadokierski, Monica Monin and Andrew Burrell (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) 7. Exploring Digital-material Hybridity in the Postdigital Museum, Daniela Petrelli and Nick Dulake (Sheffield Hallam University, UK) 8. Socio-material Translations of Data and Value(s), Bettina Nissen (University of Edinburgh, UK) 9. Personal Data Manifestation: A Tangible Poetics of Data, Giles Lane (Proboscis, UK) and George Roussos (Birkbeck, University of London, UK) 10. Data and Emotion: The Climate Change Object, Karin von Ompteda (OCAD, Canada) Part Three: Techniques 11. Hybrid Data Constructs: Interacting with Biomedical Data in Augmented Spaces, Daniel F. Keefe, Bridger Herman, Jung Who Nam, Daniel Orban and Seth Johnson (University of Minnesota, USA) 12. Sonic Data Physicalization, Stephen Barrass (University of Canberra, Australia) 13. Making with Climate Data: Materiality, Metaphor and Engagement, Mitchell Whitelaw and Geoff Hinchcliffe (Australian National University) 14. Waterfalls as a Form of AI-based Feedback for Creativity Support, Georgi V. Georgiev and Yazan Barhoush (University of Oulu, Finland) 15. Data as Action: Constructing Dynamic Data Physicalizations, Jason Alexander (University of Bath, UK) Part Four: Trajectories 16. Making Data: The Next Generation, Ian Gwilt and Aaron Davis (University of South Australia)
£85.50
Springer New York The Grammar of Graphics Statistics and Computing
Trade ReviewFrom the reviews of the second edition: "This fascinating book deconstructs the process of producing graphics and in doing so raises many fascinating questions on the nature and representation of information...This second edition is almost twice the size of the original, with six new chapters and substantial revisions." Short Book Reviews of the International Statistical Institute, December 2005 "When the first edidtion of this book appeared in 2000 it was much praised. I called it a tour de force of the highest order. (Wainer, 2001), Edward Wegman (2000) argued that it was destined to become a classic. Now, six years later this very fine book has been much improved." Howard Wainer for Psychometrika "...The second edition is an impressive expansion beyond a quite remarkable first edition. The text remains dense and even more encyclopedic, but it is a pleasure to read, whether a novice or an expert in graphics...this book is a bargain...The second edition is a must-have volume for anyone interested in graphics." Thomas E. Bradstreet for the Journal of the American Statistical Association, December 2006 "I find myself still thinking about the book and its ideas, several weeks after I finished reading it. I love that kind of book." Mark Bailey for Techometrics, Vol. 49, No. 1, February 2007 "Warts and all, The Grammar of Graphics is a richly rewarding work, an outstanding achievement by one of the leaders of statistical graphics. Seek it out." Nicholas J. Cox for the Journal of Statistical Software, January 2007 "The second edition is a quite fascinating book as well, and it comes with many color graphics. Anyone working in this field can see how many hours the author (plus coworkers) has spent on such a volume. … Demands for good graphics are high and this book will help to wetten the appetite to create future computer packages that will meet this demand. An occasional reader will get insights into a modern world of computing … ." (Wolfgang Polasek, Statistical Papers, Vol. 48, 2007)Table of ContentsSyntax.- How To Make a Pie.- Data.- Variables.- Algebra.- Scales.- Statistics.- Geometry.- Coordinates.- Aesthetics.- Facets.- Guides.- Semantics.- Space.- Time.- Uncertainty.- Analysis.- Control.- Automation.- Reader.- Coda.
£127.49
Springer GraphBased Clustering and Data Visualization Algorithms
Book SynopsisThis work presents a data visualization technique that combines graph-based topology representation and dimensionality reduction methods to visualize the intrinsic data structure in a low-dimensional vector space.Table of ContentsVector Quantisation and Topology-Based Graph RepresentationGraph-Based Clustering AlgorithmsGraph-Based Visualisation of High-Dimensional Data
£52.24
Springer Visualization of TimeOriented Data
Book Synopsis1 Introduction.- 2 Historical Background.- 3 Time & Time-Oriented Data.- 4 Crafting Visualizations of Time-Oriented Data.- 5 Involving the Human via Interaction.- 6 Computational Analysis Support.- 7 Guiding the Selection of Visualization Techniques.- 8 Conclusion.Table of ContentsForeword.- Preface.- About the Authors.- Acknowledgements.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Historical Background.- 3 Time & Time-Oriented Data.- 4 Crafting Visualizations of Time-Oriented Data.- 5 Involving the Human via Interaction.- 6 Computational Analysis Support.- 7 Guiding the Selection of Visualization Techniques.- 8 Conclusion. Appendix A: Survey of Visualization Techniques.- Appendix B: Examples of Data Quality Issues.- References.- Index
£31.49
O'Reilly Media Innovative Tableau
Book SynopsisLevel up with Tableau to build eye-catching, easy-to-interpret data visualizations. In this follow-up guide to Practical Tableau, author Ryan Sleeper takes you through a collection of unique tips and tutorials for using this popular software.
£47.99
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Answer for Everything: 200 Infographics to
Book SynopsisWhat’s the best book ever written? What would happen if we all stopped eating meat? What's the secret to living past 110? And what actually is the best thing since sliced bread? In An Answer For Everything, 200 of the world’s most intriguing questions are settled once and for all through beautiful and brilliant infographics. The results will leave you shocked, informed and thoroughly entertained. Created by the team behind the award-winning Delayed Gratification magazine, these compelling, darkly funny data visualisations will change the way you think about ... everythingTrade ReviewFresh, fascinating, and fun – a visual and verbal treat * Ian Hislop *A chunky, colourful book packed with fascinating facts and figures in infographic form * Daily Mirror, Books of the Year *Data just got a lot more fun * It's Nice That *Achieves the ultimate factual book goal; makes you cleverer, with minimal effort on your part. You’ll learn from it but somehow it makes that pleasurable * Rachel Parris, The Mash Report *A fabulous compendium of a thousand new things you didn’t know you didn’t know. And it looks very nice too * Andrew Hunter Murray, No Such Thing as a Fish, QI *Delayed Gratification is one of my favourite magazines, and one of the best things about it is the infographics. They've now published a book of them and it's glorious! * Alex Bellos *
£15.29
Sage Publications Ltd Communicating with Data Visualisation: A
Book SynopsisHow can you transform a spreadsheet of numbers into a clear, compelling story that your audience will want to pass on? This book is a step-by-step guide (honed through the authors′ Guardian masterclasses, workshops and seminars) to bringing data to life through visualisations, from static charts and maps to interactive infographics and motion graphics. Introducing a four-step framework to creating engaging and innovative visualisations, it helps you to: · Find the human stories in your datasets · Design a visual story that will resonate with your audience · Make a clear, persuasive visual that represents your data truthfully · Refine your work to ensure your visual expresses your story in the best possible way. This book also includes a portfolio of best-practice examples and annotated templates to help you choose the right visual for the right audience, and repurpose your work for different contexts.Trade ReviewThis is an enjoyable and informative read from four premier data visualisation experts. Grounded in their award-winning practice and teaching, the authors offer concrete strategies and a wealth of examples for anyone wishing to create intuitive and engaging data visualisations. -- Penny Sheets ThibautThe book is a refreshingly witty guide to data visualisation that entertains while it educates. It offers a clear and easy to follow process illustrated through a dizzying range of examples. It’s a great combination of design principles and real-world lessons learnt through actual projects. Fun, accurate, erudite and teeming with useful nuggets of information - very much like some of their best data visualisations! -- Emma WhiteheadTable of ContentsIntroduction: Notes from the Underground Part 1: The Data Visualisation Process Chapter 1: Find, design, make, refine Chapter 2: A spectrum of right answers Chapter 3: Find Chapter 4: Designing Static Graphics Chapter 5: Making Static Graphics Chapter 6: An Introduction to Interactive Data Visualisation Chapter 7: Designing Motion Graphics Chapter 8: Making Motion Graphics Chapter 9: Designing Interactive Infographics Chapter 10: Making Interactive Infographics Chapter 11: Refine Chapter 12: Resources Part 2: Finding the Right Chart For Your Story
£39.99
Rowman & Littlefield Introduction to Information Visualization:
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Information Visualization: Transforming Data into Meaningful Information is for anyone interested in the art and science of communicating data to others. It shows readers how to transform data into something meaningful - information. Applying information visualization in research, service, teaching, and professional life requires a solid understanding of graphic design and the aesthetic along with hands-on skills and knowledge of data principles and software. This book is applicable to students in all domains, to researchers who need to understand how to create graphics that explain their data, and to professionals and administrators for professional development training. Website Designers and Human-Computer Interaction researchers will appreciate the backstory of designing interactive visualizations for the web. Drawing on the author’s years of practice and teaching, it bridges the two worlds in ways everyone can participate in the future of information and to appreciate the beautiful in information: oStep-by-step directions in the fundamentals of HTML5, CSS, and d3.js oDesign challenges with fully explained answers oWeb-site support for code samples (JavaScript, d3.js, python), live examples, and a place to build a community of other IV pros oUseful for teaching design to scientists; data to the humanities oGuidance for using the text depending on the class makeup oReview of third-party visualization software, big data trends, and script libraries oGuidance on how to continue in the IV world after graduation This full-color book features graphics and a companion Web site. The online companion site hosts living examples, updates, and errata. You’re invited to participate on the site, too, sharing your questions, solutions, and ideas. For most readings, there is a partner design lab. At the conclusion of the course, there is a complete interactive information visualization service documentation for libraries. Trade ReviewBenoît's book is breath of fresh air, providing an equal platform between fine art and science, closing a gap not found in other information visualization textbooks. Benoît’s expertise in the field brings out the aesthetic and artistic side of InfoViz without compromising the science side of data. The beauty lies in the real-life examples and on-hands, experiential approach to the field. -- Anastasia S. Varnalis-Weigle, Assistant Professor, Information and Library Science, University of Maine at AugustaBenoît successfully covers a range of intersecting topics in information visualization, from the technical to the aesthetic. He brings clarity to this complex space using a number of well-selected examples, and his interdisciplinary approach makes it accessible to a range of students and professionals. -- James E. Andrews, Director, School of Information, University of South FloridaThis book is an original voice from an expert in information visualization. By building on easy-to-learn skills, it combines basics of web development with knowledge of information visualization and gives simple tips to improve visual aesthetics through the design. Practical tools introduced in the book allow a hands-on experience. I highly recommend this book as a DIY for any one interested in the field. -- Banafsheh Asadi, School of Information Studies, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1.Introduction: why information visualization? Why skills + data + communication? 2.The Ethics/Aesthetics of Information 3.The Art of Information 4.The Tech of InfoVis 5.The Data of Visualization 6.Thinking through visualizations 7.Real World visualizations and text visuals Appendix 1 Appendix 2 On the companion website, find … 8.Deploying an InfoVis service [the Harvard Libraries project documentation] 9.Appendices: Machine Learning and Visualization - a quick view of visualizations in Big Data
£93.60
Rowman & Littlefield Introduction to Information Visualization:
Book SynopsisIntroduction to Information Visualization: Transforming Data into Meaningful Information is for anyone interested in the art and science of communicating data to others. It shows readers how to transform data into something meaningful - information. Applying information visualization in research, service, teaching, and professional life requires a solid understanding of graphic design and the aesthetic along with hands-on skills and knowledge of data principles and software. This book is applicable to students in all domains, to researchers who need to understand how to create graphics that explain their data, and to professionals and administrators for professional development training. Website Designers and Human-Computer Interaction researchers will appreciate the backstory of designing interactive visualizations for the web. Drawing on the author’s years of practice and teaching, it bridges the two worlds in ways everyone can participate in the future of information and to appreciate the beautiful in information: oStep-by-step directions in the fundamentals of HTML5, CSS, and d3.js oDesign challenges with fully explained answers oWeb-site support for code samples (JavaScript, d3.js, python), live examples, and a place to build a community of other IV pros oUseful for teaching design to scientists; data to the humanities oGuidance for using the text depending on the class makeup oReview of third-party visualization software, big data trends, and script libraries oGuidance on how to continue in the IV world after graduation This full-color book features graphics and a companion Web site. The online companion site hosts living examples, updates, and errata. You’re invited to participate on the site, too, sharing your questions, solutions, and ideas. For most readings, there is a partner design lab. At the conclusion of the course, there is a complete interactive information visualization service documentation for libraries. Trade ReviewBenoît's book is breath of fresh air, providing an equal platform between fine art and science, closing a gap not found in other information visualization textbooks. Benoît’s expertise in the field brings out the aesthetic and artistic side of InfoViz without compromising the science side of data. The beauty lies in the real-life examples and on-hands, experiential approach to the field. -- Anastasia S. Varnalis-Weigle, Assistant Professor, Information and Library Science, University of Maine at AugustaBenoît successfully covers a range of intersecting topics in information visualization, from the technical to the aesthetic. He brings clarity to this complex space using a number of well-selected examples, and his interdisciplinary approach makes it accessible to a range of students and professionals. -- James E. Andrews, Director, School of Information, University of South FloridaThis book is an original voice from an expert in information visualization. By building on easy-to-learn skills, it combines basics of web development with knowledge of information visualization and gives simple tips to improve visual aesthetics through the design. Practical tools introduced in the book allow a hands-on experience. I highly recommend this book as a DIY for any one interested in the field. -- Banafsheh Asadi, School of Information Studies, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1.Introduction: why information visualization? Why skills + data + communication? 2.The Ethics/Aesthetics of Information 3.The Art of Information 4.The Tech of InfoVis 5.The Data of Visualization 6.Thinking through visualizations 7.Real World visualizations and text visuals Appendix 1 Appendix 2 On the companion website, find … 8.Deploying an InfoVis service [the Harvard Libraries project documentation] 9.Appendices: Machine Learning and Visualization - a quick view of visualizations in Big Data
£47.50
ESRI Press Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting
Book SynopsisImagery and GIS, working together, expand our perspective so that we can better perceive and understand The Science of Where™.Today, most maps include imagery in the form of aerial photos, satellite images, thermal images, digital elevation models, and scanned maps. Imagery and GIS: Best Practices for Extracting Information from Imagery shows how imagery can be integrated successfully into GIS maps and analysis. In this essential reference, discover how imagery brings value to GIS and how GIS can be used to derive value from imagery. Learn from case studies and in-depth explanations about selecting the right imagery, image analysis, how to efficiently manage and serve imagery datasets, and how to accurately extract information from imagery. The authors’ experience working together on numerous research, teaching, and operational remote sensing and GIS applications bestow the book with both the newest innovations, as well as proven advice.Apply the best practices found in Imagery and GIS to obtain the most value from imagery in your own GIS projects.Trade ReviewImagery and GIS is a well-rounded and approachable introductory remote sensing textbook clearly written with GIS users and community in mind. The quality of the book both in content and printing (e.g., color figures and fonts) combined with an excellent glossary and index, all at an affordable price, make it a very appealing textbook or reference. --Benjamin W. Heumann, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing Vol. 85, No. 3, March 2019, pp. 161–162. * Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing *"[A] treasure trove of insights into the entire process of incorporating imagery into GIS objectives." - Midwest Book ReviewTable of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction to imagery Chapter 2 Thinking about imagery Chapter 3 Imagery fundamentals Chapter 4 Choosing and accessing the right imagery Chapter 5 Working with imagery Chapter 6 Imagery processing: Controlling unwanted variation in the imagery Chapter 7 Understanding variation on the ground - the importance of the classification scheme Chapter 8 Digital elevation models Chapter 9 Data exploration: Tools for linking variation in the imagery to variation on the ground Chapter 10 Image classification Chapter 11 Change analysis Chapter 12 Accuracy assessment Chapter 13 Publishing and serving imagery Chapter 14 Concluding thoughts Glossary Bibliography Image credits Index
£77.39
ESRI Press Spatial Statistics Illustrated
Book SynopsisSpatial statistics empowers you to go beyond visual analysis to answer questions confidently and make data-driven decisions.Thanks to the data and computational power now at our fingertips, data science is in every aspect of our lives. But with so many algorithms and buzzwords floating around, where do you start to solve complex problems or figure out where to go next?There has never been a more exciting time to learn about spatial statistics. Spatial statistics uses an aspect of geography that helps you quantify patterns and relationships so that you can feel confident in your analysis.Spatial Statistics Illustrated is an introductory book for learning the concepts behind the powerful spatial statistics tools in ArcGIS.With approachable explanations and uncomplicated drawings, Spatial Statistics Illustrated gives readers an accessible understanding of some of the most widely used spatial statistics methods, including how they work and when to use them. In a friendly, conversational tone, the authors share techniques that can help you explore your data in meaningful ways; quantify patterns and relationships; understand trends, and make informed, impactful decisions.This book has something for everyone analyzing data, including: seasoned data scientists looking to explore the value that spatial analysis offers GIS analysts looking to expand their spatial statistics skill set new GIS users discovering the value of spatial statistics Spatial Statistics Illustrated is a perfect complement to more traditional, technical statistics and spatial statistics texts and is also ideal as supplemental reading for academic courses.Based on the popular series of Spatial Statistics workshops presented by the authors at the annual Esri User Conference, Spatial Statistics Illustrated welcomes readers into the unparalleled world of spatial statistics.
£30.39
ESRI Press Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Pro
Book SynopsisTop 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS® Pro introduces the most important skills you need to get up and running with geographic information systems (GIS).With its location data advantage, geographic information system (GIS) software is a tool to help with key projects, decisions, and problems. But how do you start using GIS in your projects? If you need a fast track to using this valuable tool, learn and get experience with Top 20 Essential Skills for ArcGIS Pro.With this book, you can start using ArcGIS Pro quickly and successfully. Easy to understand, step-by-step exercises Conversational, upbeat language with lots of illustrations and tips Interesting user stories covering how GIS is applied in many situations Exercises for working with spatial data, creating maps, and doing basic analysis This handy resource with easy to follow, how-to steps will help you build your skill set to become adept at understanding and using ArcGIS Pro.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Exploring the ArcGIS Pro interfaceChapter 2: Creating reference maps and layoutsChapter 3: Preparing your dataChapter 4: Joining tables to GIS dataChapter 5: Creating thematic mapsChapter 6: GeocodingChapter 7: Creating categorical mapsChapter 8: Working with data tablesChapter 9: Enriching your dataChapter 10: Mapping x,y coordinate dataChapter 11: Editing feature dataChapter 12: Performing data queriesChapter 13: Performing location queriesChapter 14: Using geoprocessing toolsChapter 15: Creating geodatabasesChapter 16: Joining featuresChapter 17: Working with imageryChapter 18: Using 3D dataChapter 19: Adding a table and chart to a layoutChapter 20: Sharing your workChapter 21: Publishing your work (bonus skill)
£34.19
Technics Publications LLC Data Science: Mindset, Methodologies &
Book SynopsisMaster the concepts and strategies underlying success and progress in data science. From the author of the bestsellers, Data Scientist and Julia for Data Science, this book covers four foundational areas of data science. The first area is the data science pipeline including methodologies and the data scientists toolbox. The second are essential practices needed in understanding the data including questions and hypotheses. The third are pitfalls to avoid in the data science process. The fourth is an awareness of future trends and how modern technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) fit into the data science framework. Targeted towards data science learners of all levels, this book aims to help the reader go beyond data science techniques and obtain a more holistic and deeper understanding of what data science entails. With a focus on the problems data science tries to solve, this book challenges the reader to become a self-sufficient player in the field.
£36.79
iUniverse The Little Book of Artificial Intelligence
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£11.97
Information Age Publishing Use of Visual Displays in Research and Testing:
Book SynopsisVisual displays play a crucial role in knowledge generation and communication. The purpose of the volume is to provide researchers with a framework that helps them use visual displays to organize and interpret data; and to communicate their findings in a comprehensible way within different research (e.g., quantitative, mixed methods) and testing traditions that improves the presentation and understanding of findings. Further, this book includes contributions from leading scholars in testing and quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, and results reporting. The volume’s focal question is: What are the best principles and practices for the use of visual displays in the research and testing process, which broadly includes the analysis, organization, interpretation, and communication of data?The volume is organized into four sections. Section I provides a rationale for this volume; namely, that including visual displays in research and testing can enhance comprehension and processing efficiency. Section II includes addresses theoretical frameworks and universal design principles for visual displays. Section III examines the use of visual displays in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. Section IV focuses on using visual displays to report testing and assessment data.
£47.45
Information Age Publishing Use of Visual Displays in Research and Testing:
Book SynopsisVisual displays play a crucial role in knowledge generation and communication. The purpose of the volume is to provide researchers with a framework that helps them use visual displays to organize and interpret data; and to communicate their findings in a comprehensible way within different research (e.g., quantitative, mixed methods) and testing traditions that improves the presentation and understanding of findings. Further, this book includes contributions from leading scholars in testing and quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research, and results reporting. The volume’s focal question is: What are the best principles and practices for the use of visual displays in the research and testing process, which broadly includes the analysis, organization, interpretation, and communication of data?The volume is organized into four sections. Section I provides a rationale for this volume; namely, that including visual displays in research and testing can enhance comprehension and processing efficiency. Section II includes addresses theoretical frameworks and universal design principles for visual displays. Section III examines the use of visual displays in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. Section IV focuses on using visual displays to report testing and assessment data.
£82.80
Ryland, Peters & Small Ltd Be Happy: Hang on to Your Happiness and Live a
Book SynopsisUse these strategies to warm your heart and open your mind to the power of happiness. Happiness is like the answer to a riddle. The more we want it and the more we seek it, the more elusive it becomes. And yet, when we are least conscious of looking for it, it can envelop us in a warm sense of contentment and belonging, making a single moment precious and valuable beyond measure. Scientists will tell us that happiness has the power to heal and to extend life. It is the ingredient we all seek to make our lives complete. Happiness makes us feel glad to be alive and this book offers you a more joyous approach to living and thinking; a shift in approach that may reframe your view of the world. Simple things you can do to reconsider your life – consciously – so that you can decide whether now is the time when you can be happier. It shares the experiences of others and provides the closest we might have to a happiness 'formula'. The good news is, happiness is within everyone’s grasp.
£7.59
Packt Publishing Limited Pentaho Data Integration Quick Start Guide:
Book SynopsisGet productive quickly with Pentaho Data IntegrationKey Features Take away the pain of starting with a complex and powerful system Simplify your data transformation and integration work Explore, transform, and validate your data with Pentaho Data Integration Book DescriptionPentaho Data Integration(PDI) is an intuitive and graphical environment packed with drag and drop design and powerful Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) capabilities. Given its power and flexibility, initial attempts to use the Pentaho Data Integration tool can be difficult or confusing. This book is the ideal solution.This book reduces your learning curve with PDI. It provides the guidance needed to make you productive, covering the main features of Pentaho Data Integration. It demonstrates the interactive features of the graphical designer, and takes you through the main ETL capabilities that the tool offers.By the end of the book, you will be able to use PDI for extracting, transforming, and loading the types of data you encounter on a daily basis.What you will learn Design, preview and run transformations in Spoon Run transformations using the Pan utility Understand how to obtain data from different types of files Connect to a database and explore it using the database explorer Understand how to transform data in a variety of ways Understand how to insert data into database tables Design and run jobs for sequencing tasks and sending emails Combine the execution of jobs and transformations Who this book is forThis book is for software developers, business intelligence analysts, and others involved or interested in developing ETL solutions, or more generally, doing any kind of data manipulation.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Getting Started with PDI Getting Familiar with Spoon Extracting Data Tranforming Data Loading Data Orchestrating your Work
£22.79
IGI Global Challenges and Applications of Data Analytics in
Book SynopsisWith exponentially increasing amounts of data accumulating in real-time, there is no reason why one should not turn data into a competitive advantage. While machine learning, driven by advancements in artificial intelligence, has made great strides, it has not been able to surpass a number of challenges that still prevail in the way of better success. Such limitations as the lack of better methods, deeper understanding of problems, and advanced tools are hindering progress.Challenges and Applications of Data Analytics in Social Perspectives provides innovative insights into the prevailing challenges in data analytics and its application on social media and focuses on various machine learning and deep learning techniques in improving practice and research. The content within this publication examines topics that include collaborative filtering, data visualization, and edge computing. It provides research ideal for data scientists, data analysts, IT specialists, website designers, e-commerce professionals, government officials, software engineers, social media analysts, industry professionals, academicians, researchers, and students.
£201.00
Packt Publishing Limited Alteryx Designer Cookbook: Over 60 recipes to
Book SynopsisStreamline your workflow, transform raw data into actionable insights, and use Alteryx Designer to shape, design, and visualize data Key Features Acquire the skills necessary to perform analytics operations like an expert Discover hidden trends and insights in your data from various sources to make accurate predictions Reduce the time and effort required to derive insights from your data Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format Book DescriptionAlteryx allows you to create data manipulation and analytic workflows with a simple, easy-to-use, code-free UI, and perform fast-executing workflows, offering multiple ways to achieve the same results. The Alteryx Designer Cookbook is a comprehensive guide to maximizing your Alteryx skills and determining the best ways to perform data operations. This book's recipes will guide you through an analyst's complete journey, covering all aspects of the data life cycle. The first set of chapters will teach you how to read data from various sources to obtain reports and pass it through the required adjustment operations for analysis. After an explanation of the Alteryx platform components with a particular focus on Alteryx Designer, you’ll be taken on a tour of what and how you can accomplish by using this tool. Along the way, you’ll learn best practices and design patterns. The book also covers real-world examples to help you apply your understanding of the features in Alteryx to practical scenarios. By the end of this book, you’ll have enhanced your proficiency with Alteryx Designer and an improved ability to execute tasks within the tool efficiently.What you will learn Speed up the cleansing, data preparing, and shaping process Perform operations and transformations on the data to suit your needs Blend different types of data sources for analysis Pivot and un-pivot the data for easy manipulation Perform aggregations and calculations on the data Encapsulate reusable logic into macros Develop high-quality, data-driven reports to improve consistency Who this book is forThis book is for data analysts, data professionals, and business intelligence professionals seeking to harness the full potential of the tool. A basic understanding of Alteryx Designer and Alteryx terminology, including macros, apps, and workflows, is all you need to get started with this book.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Input data from files Working with databases Data Preparation Data Transformations Data Parsing Grouping Data Blending and Merging data Aggregations Dynamic Operations/ Tools Macros and Apps Downloads, APIs & Web Services Developer options Reporting with Alteryx Outputting Data
£48.59
Penguin Books Ltd Atlas of the Invisible: Maps & Graphics That Will
Book SynopsisWinner of the British Cartographic Society Award 2021Winner of the John C Bartholomew Award for Thematic Mapping 2021Winner of the Stanfords Award for Printed Mapping 2021Discover the hidden patterns in human society as you have never seen them before - through the world of dataIn Atlas of the Invisible, award-winning geographer-designer team James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be. Transforming enormous data sets into rich maps and cutting-edge vizualisations, they uncover truths about our past, reflect who we are today, and highlight what we face in the years ahead. With their joyfully inquisitive approach, Cheshire and Uberti explore happiness and anxiety levels around the globe; they trace the undersea cables and cell towers that connect us; they examine hidden scars of geopolitics; and illustrate how a warming planet affects everything from hurricanes to the hajj. Years in the making, Atlas of the Invisible invites readers to marvel at the promise and peril of data, and to revel in the secrets and contours of a newly visible world.Trade ReviewGeographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti redefine what an atlas can be * Guardian *A stone cold act of genius -- Dan SnowFantastic . . . a magical combo of art and graphic gut-punch -- Dave EggersImagine Morpheus explaining The Matrix to you - but he's also a brilliant graphic designer -- Minh Lê, author of LIFTAn endlessly fascinating array of insight and analysis -- Mark Reynolds * Traveller Magazine *Demography and graphic design meet in an extraordinarily revealing book -- Starred review * Kirkus *Mind-blowing maps that harness the power of data to tell us something about ourselves and our planet -- Hannah FrySpectacular and truly Humboldtian -- Andrea Wulf, author of THE INVENTION OF NATUREA cartographer's dream, and often revelatory * Chicago Tribune *Atlas of the Invisible erupts with a kind of rigorous wonder... A strange and startling masterpiece -- Matthew Spektor, author of AMERICAN DREAM MACHINEAn absolute visual delight -- Manuel Lima, author of VISUAL COMPLEXITYIf you're into #dataviz, you *need* to have this one -- Alberto Cairo, author of THE FUNCTIONAL ARTA masterful example of the power of visual storytelling to reveal [...] meaning and knowledge otherwise hidden from view -- Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, author of ZOOBIQUITYAn invaluable resource... It represents a critical new way of seeing and understanding * Print *
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Vintage Publishing 99 Maps to Save the Planet: With an introduction
Book Synopsis'Terrifying yet funny, surprising yet predictable, simple yet poignant' Chris PackhamA shocking but informative, eye-catching and witty book of maps that illustrate the perilous state of our planet.The maps in this book are often shocking, sometimes amusing, and packed with essential information:· Did you know that just 67 companies worldwide are responsible for 67 per cent of global greenhouse emissions? · Or that keeping a horse has the same carbon footprint as a 23,500-kilometre road trip? · Did you know how many countries use less energy than is consumed globally by downloading porn from the internet?· Do you know how much of the earth's surface has been concreted over?· Or how many trees would we have to plant to make our planet carbon-neutral?Presenting a wealth of innovative scientific research and data in stunning, beautiful infographics, 99 Maps to Save the Planet provides us with instant snapshots of the destruction of our environment. At one glance, we can see the precarious state of our planet - but also realise how easy it would be to improve it Enlightening, a bit frightening, but definitely inspiring, 99 Maps to Save the Planet doesn't provide practical tips on how to save our planet: it just presents the facts. And the facts speak for themselves. Once we know them, what excuse do we have for failing to act?Trade ReviewYou'll never look at the fight for our common home in the same way again after seeing the images in this remarkable book * Big Issue *Impressively imaginative and effectively alarming * Wanderlust *Terrifying yet funny, surprising yet predictable, simple yet poignant -- Chris Packham
£15.29
Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd Data Visualization for Success: Interviews with
Book SynopsisWhat is data visualisation? In Data Visualization for Success, 40 designers and their works demonstrate that data visualisation is a vibrant and constantly evolving field that is as multimodal as it is interdisciplinary. Through the works showcased here, these designers discuss some of their approaches to working with data visualisation, offering insight into the design methods they commonly use and providing tips that will help beginning practitioners in the field. This book shows that data visualisation is a practice and discipline whose fluid boundaries continue to be moved in new, exciting, and unprecedented directions by emerging and seasoned designers alike.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Inverse Acoustic and Electromagnetic Scattering
Book SynopsisThe inverse scattering problem is central to many areas of science and technology such as radar, sonar, medical imaging, geophysical exploration and nondestructive testing. This book is devoted to the mathematical and numerical analysis of the inverse scattering problem for acoustic and electromagnetic waves. In this fourth edition, a number of significant additions have been made including a new chapter on transmission eigenvalues and a new section on the impedance boundary condition where particular attention has been made to the generalized impedance boundary condition and to nonlocal impedance boundary conditions. Brief discussions on the generalized linear sampling method, the method of recursive linearization, anisotropic media and the use of target signatures in inverse scattering theory have also been added.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- The Helmholtz Equation.- Direct Acoustic Obstacle Scattering.- Ill-Posed Problems.- Inverse Acoustic Obstacle Scattering.- The Maxwell Equations.- Inverse Electromagnetic Obstacle Scattering.- AcousticWaves in an Inhomogeneous Medium.- ElectromagneticWaves in an Inhomogeneous Medium.- Transmission Eigenvalues.- The Inverse Medium Problem.
£104.49
Springer Nature Switzerland AG Foundations of Data Visualization
Book SynopsisThis is the first book that focuses entirely on the fundamental questions in visualization. Unlike other existing books in the field, it contains discussions that go far beyond individual visual representations and individual visualization algorithms. It offers a collection of investigative discourses that probe these questions from different perspectives, including concepts that help frame these questions and their potential answers, mathematical methods that underpin the scientific reasoning of these questions, empirical methods that facilitate the validation and falsification of potential answers, and case studies that stimulate hypotheses about potential answers while providing practical evidence for such hypotheses. Readers are not instructed to follow a specific theory, but their attention is brought to a broad range of schools of thoughts and different ways of investigating fundamental questions. As such, the book represents the by now most significant collective effort for gathering a large collection of discourses on the foundation of data visualization. Data visualization is a relatively young scientific discipline. Over the last three decades, a large collection of computer-supported visualization techniques have been developed, and the merits and benefits of using these techniques have been evidenced by numerous applications in practice. These technical advancements have given rise to the scientific curiosity about some fundamental questions such as why and how visualization works, when it is useful or effective and when it is not, what are the primary factors affecting its usefulness and effectiveness, and so on. This book signifies timely and exciting opportunities to answer such fundamental questions by building on the wealth of knowledge and experience accumulated in developing and deploying visualization technology in practice.Table of ContentsPart I: Theoretical Underpinnings of Data Visualization.- The Fabric of Visualization.- Visual Abstraction.- Measures in Visualization Space.- Knowledge-Assisted Visualization and Guidance.- Mathematical Foundations in Visualizations.- Transformations, Mappings and Data Summaries.- Part II: Empirical Studies in Visualization.- A Survey of Variables Used in Empirical Studies for Visualization.- Empirical Evaluations with Domain Experts.- Evaluation of Visualization Systems with Long-term Case Studies.- Vis4Vis: Visualization for (Empirical) Visualization Research.- 'Isms' in Visualization.- Open Challenges in Empirical Visualization Research.- Part III: Collaboration with Domain Experts.- Case Studies for Working with Domain Experts.- Collaboration Between Industry and University.- Collaborating Successfully with Domain Experts.- Part IV: Developing Visualizations for Broad Audiences.- Reflections on Visualization for Broad Audiences.- Reaching Broad Audiences from a Research Institute Setting.- Reaching Broad Audiences from a Large Agency Setting.- Reaching Broad Audiences from a Science Center or Museum Setting.- Reaching Broad Audiences in an Educational Setting.- Challenges and Open Issues in Visualization for Broad Audiences
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