In the age of big data, being able to make sense of data is an important
key to success. Interactive Visual Data Analysis advocates the
synthesis of visualization, interaction, and automatic computation to
facilitate insight generation and knowledge crystallization from large
and complex data.
The book provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of visual,
interactive, and analytical methods. It introduces criteria for
designing interactive visual data analysis solutions, discusses factors
influencing the design, and examines the involved processes. The reader
is made familiar with the basics of visual encoding and gets to know
numerous visualization techniques for multivariate data, temporal data,
geo-spatial data, and graph data. A dedicated chapter introduces general
concepts for interacting with visualizations and illustrates how modern
interaction technology can facilitate the visual data analysis in many
ways. Addressing today's large and complex data, the book covers
relevant automatic analytical computations to support the visual data
analysis. The book also sheds light on advanced concepts for
visualization in multi-display environments, user guidance during the
data analysis, and progressive visual data analysis.
The authors present a top-down perspective on interactive visual data
analysis with a focus on concise and clean terminology. Many real-world
examples and rich illustrations make the book accessible to a broad
interdisciplinary audience from students, to experts in the field, to
practitioners in data-intensive application domains.
Features:
- Dedicated to the synthesis of visual, interactive, and analysis
methods
- Systematic top-down view on visualization, interaction, and automatic
analysis
- Broad coverage of fundamental and advanced visualization techniques
- Comprehensive chapter on interacting with visual representations
- Extensive integration of automatic computational methods
- Accessible portrayal of cutting-edge visual analytics technology
- Foreword by Jack van Wijk
For more information, you can also visit the author website, where
the book's figures are made available under the CC BY Open Access
license.
