Data Visualization: Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition

This book explores the study of processing and visually representing data sets. Data visualization is closely related to information graphics, information visualization, scientific visualization, and statistical graphics. This second edition presents a better treatment of the relationship between traditional scientific visualization and information visualization, a description of the emerging field of visual analytics, and updated techniques using the GPU and new generations of software tools and packages. This edition is also enhanced with exercises and downloadable code and data sets.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. From Graphics To Visualization
Chapter 3. Data Representation
Chapter 4. The Visualization Pipeline
Chapter 5. Scalar Visualization
Chapter 6. Vector Visualization
Chapter 7. Tensor Visualization
Chapter 8. Domain-Modeling Techniques
Chapter 9. Image Visualization
Chapter 10. Volume Visualization
Chapter 11. Information Visualization
Chapter 12. Conclusion