Radically improve the quality of the data visualizations you do every day by mastering core principles of color, typography, chart types, data storytelling, and more! In Everyday Data Visualization you’ll learn important design principles for the most common data visualizations: Harness the power of perception to guide a user’s attention Effectively use color and other design fundamentals to bring data to life Choose the best chart type for the data and the story you want to tell Design for interactive visualizations Keep the user’s needs first throughout your projects Everyday Data Visualization is a field guide for design techniques that will improve the charts, reports, and data dashboards you build every day. The foundation of data visualization is storytelling, and this book gives you the tools you need to start telling those stories with clarity, precision, and flair! You’ll learn how human brains perceive and process information, master modern accessibility standards, get the basics of color theory and typography, and more! Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the technology Effective data visualization is about clear and thoughtful communication. A data visualizer goes beyond flat numbers to illuminate critical insights. Great data storytelling includes skills like attracting the reader’s attention to the important points, accurately compensating for missing information, and adapting presentations to a live data flow. About the book Everyday Data Visualization gives you skills you’ll use to enhance the most common data visualizations, including charts and tables, data dashboards, and infographics. You’ll learn how to use color, typography, positioning, and choice of charts to catch and keep a viewer’s attention. Discover the finesse and design rigor that goes into building delightful dashboards, and best practices for live visualizations that flex and grow as underlying data changes. Design fundamentals are broken down into their component parts so they’re easy to understand—even if you’re the analytical type! Best of all, everything you learn is tool-agnostic, with universal principles you can apply to any data stack. About the reader For readers experienced with data analysis tools. About the author Desireé Abbott has over a decade of experience in product analytics, business intelligence, science, design, and software engineering.

The Sublimity of Document: Cinema as Diorama is a collection of in-depth, substantive interviews with moving-image artists working "avant-doc, that is, making films that explore the territory between documentary and experimental cinema. The book uses the early history of the museum habitat diorama of animal life, specifically the Hall of African Mammals at the American Museum of Natural History, as a way of rethinking both early and modern cinema document--and especially those recent filmmakers and films that are devoted to providing viewers with panoramic documentations of places and events that otherwise they might never have opportunities to experience in person. This international collection of 27 interviews follows on MacDonald's earlier Avant-Doc: Intersections of Documentary and Avant-Garde Cinema (Oxford, 2015). The interviews, organized panoramically within the collection, are dense with information and insight, and readable by specialists and non-specialists alike. In most instances, these are the most in-depth and expansive-sometimes the first-interviews with these filmmakers. Together, these interviews offer an engaging panorama of the recent history and geography of cinema devoted to documenting the world around us, as well as an in-depth look at the challenges and accomplishments of filmmakers willing to go anywhere on the planet (or on the internet!) to document what they believe we need to see. MacDonald's general introduction provides an overall context for the collection, which includes interviews with Ron Fricke, Gustav Deutsch, Laura Poitras, Fred Wiseman, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Bill Morrison, Brett Story, Abbas Kiarostami, Lois Patiño, Dominic Gagnon, Erin Espelie, Yance Ford, Janet Biggs, Carlos Adriano, Craig Johnson, Ben Russell, Betzy Bromberg, James Benning, Maxim Pozdorovkin, along with several veterans of Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab (and with the executive directors of the distributor, Documentary Educational Resources, which has served the field of independent documentary for nearly fifty years)--each interview is introduced with MacDonald's overview of the interviewee's life and work. The book includes filmographies and selected bibliographies for all the filmmakers.

Annotation. This sequel to A Critical Cinema offers a new collection of interviews with independent filmmakers that is a feast for film fans and film historians. Scott MacDonald reveals the sophisticated thinking of these artists regarding film, politics, and contemporary gender issues. The interviews explore the careers of Robert Breer, Trinh T. Minh-ha, James Benning, Su Friedrich, and Godfrey Reggio. Yoko Ono discusses her cinematic collaboration with John Lennon, Michael Snow talks about his music and films, Anne Robertson describes her cinematic diaries, Jonas Mekas and Bruce Baillie recall the New York and California avant-garde film culture. The selection has a particularly strong group of women filmmakers, including Yvonne Rainer, Laura Mulvey, and Lizzie Borden. Other notable artists are Anthony McCall, Andrew Noren, Ross McElwee, Anne Severson, and Peter Watkins.

Visualizing the data is an essential part of any data analysis. Modern computing developments have led to big improvements in graphic capabilities and there are many new possibilities for data displays. This book gives an overview of modern data visualization methods, both in theory and practice. It details modern graphical tools such as mosaic plots, parallel coordinate plots, and linked views. Coverage also examines graphical methodology for particular areas of statistics, for example Bayesian analysis, genomic data and cluster analysis, as well software for graphics.

The new edition of CCTV, a high-level professional reference, is expanded to cover all video compression techniques used in the ever-increasing assortment of digital video recorders (DVRs) available on the market today. In addition to demystifying DVR technology, the third edition also clarifies the technology of data networking and explains various compression techniques. Along with all this, the book retains the particulars that made the previous editions convenient and valuable, including details of CCD cameras, lenses, coaxial cables, fiber-optics, and system design. - Updated to address digital techniques, networking, and the Internet in closed-circuit television - Includes brand new sections on CCTV networking, digital video recorders (DVRs), various video compression techniques, and understanding pixels and digital image quality - Fully illustrated with dozens of photographs, tables, checklists, charts, diagrams, and instructions

Features 3 minibooks that cover building pages at online services such as Google Pages, using Microsoft's Expressions Web tool, and tweaking a site's look and feel with Cascading Style Sheets. This title includes coverage of topics such as Web and page design, Dreamweaver, HTML/XHTML, graphics and multimedia, e-commerce, scripting, and Flash.