Data Visualization for People of All Ages

The book is a field guide to visual literacy, born from the author's personal experience working with world-class scholars, engineers, and scientists. By walking through the different ways of showing data-including color, angle, position, and length-you'll learn how charts and graphs truly work so that no visualization is ever a mystery.

Nancy Organ is a Seattle-based data visualization professional with experience in research, education, and tech, including contributions at Microsoft and the University of Washington. She holds a degree in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. Endeavoring to make visualization accessible, fun, and empowering for young people and adults alike, she packs nearly a decade of visualization design experience into one light-hearted book.

Series editor foreword. About the author. Welcome! 1 What is data? 2 What is data visualization? 3 Length and height. 4 Size and area. 5 Position. 6 Color for categorical data. 7 Color for numerical data. 8 Color for ordinal data. 9 Shapes and patterns. 10 Making colorblind-friendly visualizations. 11 Angle. 12 Connections and networks. 13 Visualization whoopsies. 14 Sound and touch. 15 Wrapping up. Appendix 1 - Glossary of words. Appendix 2 - Glossary of graphs. Appendix 3 - Solutions guide. Bibliography. Acknowledgments. Index.