Not the Textbook: Tufte’s Books

December 24, 2014

  What if I told you that the most influential books in the field of Visualization were self-published books written by a guy with no formal training in Visualization, Perception, or Design. A political scientist was forced to teach statistics to journalists, and in the process decided to think about visualization from an art historian’s […]

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Textbook: Ware’s Visual Thinking for Design

December 24, 2014

Colin Ware’s Visual Thinking for Design is the “second” textbook. Munzner (by her own admission) doesn’t cover the connection to perception well. So, we need another book.The library has it online! Fortunately, you don’t need to buy this book. It is available in the online reserves through the UW library. Yes, you can read it […]

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Textbook: Munzner’s Visualization Analysis and Design

December 24, 2014

Tamara Munzner’s Visualization Analysis and Design is the primary textbook for this class. It is required. We will read a lot of the chapters as required reading. The book just came out (it only began to ship in hardcover form in November), so its fresh and new (you aren’t going to find any used copies). […]

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Is Amazon Evil?

December 23, 2014

(This posting is from December 2015 – before Amazon’s even more rapid diversification and growth. I think the basic message may have evolved now that Amazon seems to be taking over everything – for better or worse.) For the books I recommend, I have provided links so you can buy them on Amazon. Some people […]

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This will be the Vis15 class web site!

October 20, 2014

The main thing that is here now is the course announcement.

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