Interactive Visualization: Insight through Inquiry

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Bill Ferster (Senior Scientist, University of Virginia) Ben Shneiderman (Professor, CS, ISR, UMIACS; Founding Director HCIL, University of Maryland)

Interactive Visualization

Insight through Inquiry

Bill Ferster (Senior Scientist, University of Virginia), Ben Shneiderman (Professor, CS, ISR, UMIACS; Founding Director HCIL, University of Maryland)

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MIT Press
16 May 2023

Graphic design; Graphical & digital media applications; Information visualisation

"A guide to fundamental issues in designing interactive visualizations, exploring ideas of inquiry, design, structured data, and usability.

A guide to fundamental issues in designing interactive visualizations, exploring ideas of inquiry, design, structured data, and usability.

Interactive visualization is emerging as a vibrant new form of communication, providing compelling presentations that allow viewers to interact directly with information in order to construct their own understandings of it. Building on a long tradition of print-based information visualization, interactive visualization utilizes the technological capabilities of computers, the Internet, and computer graphics to marshal multifaceted information in the service of making a point visually. This book offers an introduction to the field, presenting a framework for exploring historical, theoretical, and practical issues. It is not a ""how-to"" book tied to specific and soon-to-be-outdated software tools, but a guide to the concepts that are central to building interactive visualization projects whatever their ultimate form.

The framework the book presents (known as the ASSERT model, developed by the author), allows the reader to explore the process of interactive visualization in terms of choosing good questions to ask; finding appropriate data for answering them; structuring that information; exploring and analyzing the data; representing the data visually; and telling a story using the data. Interactive visualization draws on many disciplines to inform the final representation, and the book reflects this, covering basic principles of inquiry, data structuring, information design, statistics, cognitive theory, usability, working with spreadsheets, the Internet, and storytelling."

By: Bill Ferster (Senior Scientist University of Virginia)
Foreword by: Ben Shneiderman (Professor CS ISR UMIACS; Founding Director HCIL University of Maryland)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 178mm,
Weight: 369g
ISBN: 9780262547673
ISBN 10: 0262547678
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 16 May 2023
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword by Ben Shneiderman ix Preface xiii I About Interactive Visualization 1 1 Introduction 3 II An Assertive Approach to Visualization 43 2 Ask a Question 45 3 Search for Information 63 4 Structure the Information 75 5 Envision the Answer 87 6 Represent the Visualization 107 7 Tell a Story Using Data 175 8 Visualization in the Classroom 187 9 The Internet 203 10 Statistics 213 11 Using Spreadsheets 221 12 Databases and XML 241 13 Accessibility 245 14 About VisualEyes 251 Further Reading 257 References 259 Index 265

Bill Ferster is on the faculty of the University of Virginia with a joint appointment to the Center for Technology and Teacher Education at the Curry School of Education and at the Science, Humanities, and Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI) at the College of Arts and Sciences. Ben Shneiderman is Professor of Computer Science and Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland, College Park.