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xxi, 599 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Whether you have some experience with Tableau software or are just getting started, this manual goes beyond the basics to help you build compelling, interactive data visualization applications. Author Ryan Sleeper, one of the world's most qualified Tableau consultants, complements his web posts and instructional videos with this guide to give you a firm understanding of how to use Tableau to find valuable insights in data. Over five sections, Sleeper--recognized...
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"A leading data visualization expert explores the negative--and positive--influences that charts have on our perception of truth. We've all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words, but what if we don't understand what we're looking at? Social media has made charts, infographics, and diagrams ubiquitous--and easier to share than ever. While such visualizations can better inform us, they can also deceive by displaying incomplete or inaccurate...
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xvi, 370 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
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English
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"Effective visualization is the best way to communicate information from the increasingly large and complex datasets in the natural and social sciences. But with the increasing power of visualization software today, scientists, engineers, and business analysts often have to navigate a bewildering array of visualization choices and options. This practical book takes you through many commonly encountered visualization problems, and it provides guidelines...
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xxv, 492 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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English
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"This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a collection of R packages designed to work together to make data science fast, fluent, and fun. Suitable for readers with no previous programming experience"--Page 4 of cover.
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xv, 445 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
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English
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From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren't enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker, social scientist Scott E. Page shows us the mathematical, statistical, and computational models--from linear regression to random walks and far...
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205 pages : color illustrations ; 36 cm
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English
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"The goal of this book is to inspire you to explore the complex world of the economy. We want to provide understandable and entertaining access to it through the medium of the infographic. The Global Economy as You've Never Seen It is for everyone who finds it impossible to work their way through the business section of The New York Times each morning and who missed -- or slept through -- their Business and Econ 101 classes. Our expedition through...
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144 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
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English
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"The colorful charts, graphs, and maps presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition by famed sociologist and black rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois offered a look behind the veil into the lives of black Americans to convey a literal and figurative representation of what Du Bois famously termed "the color line," and became the talk of the Expo. From advances in education to the lingering effects of slavery, these prophetic infographics -- beautiful in design...
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1 atlas (192 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 31 cm
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Español
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¿Donde se hallan los seres vivos más letales? ¿Donde se encuentran los volcanes más activos? ¿Dónde está el lugar más cálido del planeta? ¿Dónde viven los milmillonarios? Encuentra las respuetas a estas y a miles de fascinantes preguntas en este increíble atlas sobre casi todo"--Page [4] of cover.
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