Information Visualization: Principles, Methods, and Practice

Pre-publication early and incomplete draft: far from finished. Do not quote. Many things will change!

Book Draft (PDF, 53MB). 30 Dec 2011

This book is most certainly far from finished, feedback at many different levels is useful:

• I'm very interested in issues of structure and exposition at large and medium scales: the ordering of chapters themselves, of sections within chapters, and even of paragraph-level explanations within sections.
• I'm very interested in any question of fact - if you think anything I've written is just plain wrong, please do let me know.
• I'm also interested in issues of interpretation, especially on the frameworks for Principles and Methods that I'm proposing here.
• I'm not so interested in English bugs at the level of grammar/typos - fine to send them along if you notice any, but careful copyediting will take place at a later phase after the content is more stable.
• I'm not interested in feedback about layout or figure locations, that will be completely redone at a later stage of book production. Also, the "vocab notes" currently formatted as footnotes will be something like callout boxes in margin. All hand-drawn diagrams will of course become something more polished, after the content is more nailed down.