Visualization Analysis and Design (Hardcover)

Suitable for readers with a computer science background as well as those in geography and other disciplines where visualization techniques are used, this book presents a new model of visualization that unifies design and evaluation issues in a single framework. It splits the design issues into four areas: problem characterization, data and task abstraction, visual encoding, and interaction techniques. A broad set of techniques are analyzed through the building blocks of visualization. The book also explores the practice of visualization, including difficulties in problem-driven research.

適合具備計算機科學背景以及地理學和其他使用視覺化技術的學科的讀者，本書提出了一個統一設計和評估問題的視覺化模型。它將設計問題分為四個領域：問題特徵化、數據和任務抽象、視覺編碼和交互技術。通過視覺化的基本組件分析了一系列廣泛的技術。本書還探討了視覺化的實踐，包括在問題驅動的研究中遇到的困難。