Visualizing Data

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Summary: Behaviour Elucidation par Excellence! U didn't know this B4
Review: Behaviour elucidation is done amazingly well. This book is as good as Cleveland's "Elements of Graphing Data", but goes further: not only using principles of graphical perception, this book also invents some new ways of doing graphs. These ways sometimes involve considerable computation IN SUPPORT OF CONSTRUCTING the graphs. But the GRAPHS -- and the behaviours they reveal, make manifest / salient -- are the point. As in "Elements", Cleveland is not just about the techniques as if they were rote procedure; he helps you build perspective too. This book, in a very real sense, (even explicitly so stated by Cleveland himself) is an alternative paradigm to the pervasie statistical inference paradigm. No wonder, then, that another reviewer (a Statistics student) learned so much he had never even seen before. I am a convert to Cleveland's paradigm.

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Summary: Good
Review: Goo

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Summary: Elegant Solutions, Clarity of Presentation
Review: Simply the best book of its kind.

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Summary: A Valuable Tool
Review: This book was recommended highly to me by a former university professor (and now consultant). It exceeds my expectations. The figures and acompanying explanations are very clear, as is the language throughout. Visualizing Data discusses several tools with which I was not familiar, and clarifies tools that I thought I understood (including box plots). I have taken several university statistics classes, but I believe this book would help anyone involved in displaying or interpreting data. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but when your business depends on it, a well-defined plot or graph can be worth much more. Visualizing Data enables you to produce well-defined plots and graphs with confidence.