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Visualizing with Text
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Visualizing with Text

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Visualizing with Text uncovers the rich palette of text elements usable in visualizations from simple labels through to documents. Using a multidisciplinary research effort spanning across fields including visualization, typography, and cartography, it builds a solid foundation for the design space of text in visualization. The book illustrates many new kinds of visualizations, including microtext lines, skim formatting, and typographic sets that solve some of the shortcomings of well-known visualization techniques.

Key features:

More than 240 illustrations to aid inspiration of new visualizations

Eight new approaches to data visualization leveraging text

Quick reference guide for visualization with text

Builds a solid foundation extending current visualization theory

Bridges between visualization, typography, text analytics, and natural language processing

The author website, including teaching exercises and interactive demos and code, can be found here. Designers, developers, and academics can use this book as a reference and inspiration for new approaches to visualization in any application that uses text.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
2 November 2020
Pages
268
ISBN
9780367259266

Visualizing with Text uncovers the rich palette of text elements usable in visualizations from simple labels through to documents. Using a multidisciplinary research effort spanning across fields including visualization, typography, and cartography, it builds a solid foundation for the design space of text in visualization. The book illustrates many new kinds of visualizations, including microtext lines, skim formatting, and typographic sets that solve some of the shortcomings of well-known visualization techniques.

Key features:

More than 240 illustrations to aid inspiration of new visualizations

Eight new approaches to data visualization leveraging text

Quick reference guide for visualization with text

Builds a solid foundation extending current visualization theory

Bridges between visualization, typography, text analytics, and natural language processing

The author website, including teaching exercises and interactive demos and code, can be found here. Designers, developers, and academics can use this book as a reference and inspiration for new approaches to visualization in any application that uses text.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Date
2 November 2020
Pages
268
ISBN
9780367259266