Visualizing with Text.
| Author/creator | Brath, Richard |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Milton : CRC Press LLC, 2020. |
| Description | 1 online resource (299 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | Click here to view book |
| Series | AK Peters Visualization Ser AK Peters Visualization Ser. UNAUTHORIZED |
| Contents | Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Visual Table of Contents -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Credits -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the Author -- Part I Defining Text Elements -- Chapter 1 Why Visualize with Text? -- 1.1 Why Text? -- 1.2 500 Years of Pushing Text Out of Visualizations -- 1.3 (Re)Learning from History -- 1.3.1 Cartography -- 1.3.2 Typography -- 1.3.3 Tables -- 1.3.4 Science Classification and Notation -- 1.3.5 Code Editors -- 1.3.6 Alphanumeric Charts -- 1.3.7 Art and Poetry -- 1.3.8 Graphic Design and Advertising |
| Contents | 1.3.9 Comics -- 1.3.10 Post-Modern Text -- 1.3.11 Data Visualization -- 1.4 Further Reading -- Chapter 2 The Design Space of Visualization with Text -- 2.1 Is Text Visualization? -- 2.1.1 Visualization as Visual Patterns -- 2.1.2 Visualization as Organized Inventory -- 2.1.3 Visualization as Communication -- 2.2 Visualization Design Space Today -- 2.2.1 Visualization Anatomy -- 2.2.2 Visualization Encoding -- 2.3 Preprocessing Text for the Visualization Pipeline -- 2.4 Deriving a Visualization Pipeline for Text -- 2.5 Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Characterizing Text -- 3.1 Literal Data |
| Contents | 3.1.1 Functional Benefits: The Data Contains Text -- 3.1.2 Perceptual Benefits: Fast, Efficient Access to Detail -- 3.1.3 Cognitive Benefits: Reasoning Aid -- 3.1.4 Language Constraints -- 3.2 Typographic Attributes -- 3.2.1 Alphanumeric Glyphs (i.e. Letters and Numbers) -- 3.2.2 Symbols and Paired Delimiters -- 3.2.3 Weight (and Bold) -- 3.2.4 Oblique Angle (and Italic) -- 3.2.5 Underlines -- 3.2.6 Case (Upper, Lower, Small Caps, and Proper) -- 3.2.7 Width (Condensed/Expanded, Scaling, and Spacing) -- 3.2.8 Typeface (i.e. Font) |
| Contents | 3.2.9 Low-Level Font Parameters: X-Height, Contrast, Stress, Serif Types, etc. -- 3.2.10 Shifting Baseline and Text on a Path -- 3.3 Non-Type Visual Attributes -- 3.3.1 Size -- 3.3.2 Rotation -- 3.3.3 Fill Color -- 3.3.4 Outline and Outline Color -- 3.3.5 Gradients or Drop-Shadows -- 3.3.6 Superimposition and Contrast -- 3.3.7 Distortion and Extrusion -- 3.3.8 3D Orientation -- 3.3.9 Motion -- 3.3.10 More: Texture, Blur, Transparency, Etc. -- 3.4 Marks and Text Scope -- 3.4.1 Point Marks: Characters, Codes, Syllables, and Words -- 3.4.2 Line Marks: Phrases and Sentences |
| Contents | 3.4.3 Area Marks: Paragraphs and Chapters -- 3.4.4 Readability of Text -- 3.5 Text Layouts: Prose, Tables, and Lists -- 3.5.1 Prose -- 3.5.2 Tables -- 3.5.3 Lists and Indices -- 3.6 Text Interactions -- 3.7 Text Characterization for Visualization Design Summary -- 3.8 Further Reading -- Chapter 4 Using the Design Space -- 4.1 Structured Data and Bertin's Permutations -- 4.2 Unstructured Data Analysis and NLP -- 4.3 Multiple Attributes -- 4.4 Roles for Text in Visualizations -- 4.5 Visualization Business Opportunities -- 4.6 Further Reading -- Part II Labels -- Chapter 5 Point Labels |
| General note | Description based upon print version of record. |
| General note | 5.1 Labels as Point Marks |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Brath, Richard Visualizing with Text Milton : CRC Press LLC,c2020 9780367259303 |
| ISBN | 9781000196795 |
| ISBN | 1000196798 |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |