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    Charts & Diagrams Primer
    Charts & Diagrams Primer
    Charts & Diagrams Primer
    Ebook32 pages9 minutes

    Charts & Diagrams Primer

    By Beam Vanwaardenberg

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    This is a tutorial for designers how to use tools in Google Charts, Open Office spreadsheet and XLS for making Diagrams and Charts. The second part is an example of a 3D visualisation of population data.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBram Vanwaardenberg
    Release dateNov 29, 2012
    ISBN9781301616763
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      Charts & Diagrams Primer - Beam Vanwaardenberg

      Graph Primer

      Contrechoc

      Published by Contrechoc at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 Contrechoc

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      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      ***~~~***

      Data visualization: Introduction Graph Primer for designers

      ***~~~***

      Chapter 1: Needed software, Websites, Books, Data:

      The goal of graphs: communicate (visually)

      The big goal of data visualisation and the role of the designer is making numbers communicate a message, a story or a vision. This transformation is very sensitive: in visualisation details are lost, so where is the boundary between message and misinformation, faking, or even misguiding?

      Graphing as the basis of data visualisation remains a simple transformation so the danger of misguiding is smaller than in more complex data visualisations. But as we can see in the book "The Wall Street Journal" (see below) even in simple graphs there are many mistakes to make.

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