Preface
Data, data, data. Piles and gobs of it are amassing everywhere faster than ever before. And with this grand swelling of information has come a sudden rise in the need for a discipline over two centuries old: Data visualization, the craft of communicating patterns and trends in raw data by transforming it into visual displays.
Traditionally, such displays have been rendered in ink, drawn onto the pages of books, newspapers, and academic journals, and frozen at the time of their printing. But more and more, data is being transformed into pixels and published online in interactive displays the viewer can change with the click of her mouse. Any modern practitioner of data visualization needs a tool to assist with that transformation—from ...
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