Data Visualization: Principles and Practice

By Alexandru C. Telea

Designing a complete visualization system involves many subtle decisions. When designing a complex, real-world visualization system, such decisions involve many types of constraints, such as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568813066
• ISBN13: 9781568813066
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: A K Peters/CRC Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful book

I bought this book for a course that hasn't started yet, so I haven't looked at the book in depth. However, I already know the field to some degree and from leafing through the book it looks pretty good. Most impressive, though, is that every page is a full-color glossy-finish print. (Expensive, but beautful!)

An excellent reference for any advanced, college-level holding

Data visualization specialists use math, computer science and physics to create images that improve understanding of data sets, and this introductory text, perfect for college-level computer libraries and classroom assignment alike, offers a basic introduction to the field and its various visualization techniques. Here are cross-disciplinary keys to understanding such sets and how imaging and computer graphics works, with chapters blending math formulas with imaging techniques and specs. An excellent reference for any advanced, college-level holding strong in computer graphics or data visualization techniques. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch