Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 694 pages
- Published by: Springer; 2nd ed. edition July 15, 2005
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0387245448
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0387245447
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 6.2 x 1.6 inches
- Weighs: 3 pounds
Product Review
From the reviews:
ZENTRALBLATT MATH
"Who should read this book? The simple answer is, of course, anyone who is interested in business or scientific graphics. This is the only book in print that lays out in detail how to write computer programs for business or scientific graphics."
SHORT BOOK REVIEWS
"This book reveals the kind of thinking that produced the versatile graphics component of those packages, and offers a foundation for quantitative graphics in the distributed computing environments of the future."
From 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 informationThis 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 graphicsthis book is a bargainThe 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)
Product Description
This book was written for statisticians, computer scientists, geographers, researchers, and others interested in visualizing data. It presents a unique foundation for producing almost every quantitative graphic found in scientific journals, newspapers, statistical packages, and data visualization systems. While the tangible results of this work have been several visualization
software libraries, this book focuses on the deep structures involved in producing quantitative graphics from data. What are the rules that underlie the production of pie charts, bar charts, scatterplots, function plots, maps, mosaics, and radar charts? Those less interested in the theoretical and mathematical foundations can still get a sense of the richness and structure of the system by looking at the numerous and often unique color graphics it can produce. The second edition is almost twice the size of the original, with six new chapters and substantial revision. Much of the added material makes this book suitable for survey courses in visualization and statistical graphics.
"This fascinating book deconstructs the process of producing graphics and in doing so raises many fascinating questions on the nature and representation of informationThis 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 graphicsthis book is a bargainThe 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
Reader Reviews
This review is from: The Grammar of Graphics (Hardcover)
A good book with lots of actual graphical examples to illustrate the different concepts. Coverage of many different kinds of graphs and how they are related and transformed into each other.
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